Eliezer Yudkowsky Quotes
To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
Karin Slaughter
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I can't change my bra size. They're natural! I can work out and I can stay healthy and motivated, but I can't change some things. I really just live my life. I love my body. It's what God gave me! I feel confident with myself, and if that inspires other women to feel confident with their bodies, great.
Kate Upton
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Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
Karl Kraus
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Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.
Ramana Maharshi
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The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
Carl von Clausewitz
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
Candy Crowley
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There are some geologists involved with prospecting for oil and other hidden resources who can pick up a rock and say, 'Yes, there's oil under there.' A geologist who has been studying those kinds of rocks for 10 or 20 years is able to make that pronouncement.
Christopher Alexander
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My father is not around any more, so I cannot ask him to do my drawings for me. So, I had to find a different way. And I came up with the solution to use the printers then; I wasn't doing anything complicated. The nature of the printer is efficiency in itself and about working, being productive.
Wade Guyton
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The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.
Billy Tauzin
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We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure.
Francis of Assisi
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Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.
Harvey Mackay
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To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.
Eliezer Yudkowsky