Quotes 181 till 198 of 198.
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We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.
Source: Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010) Over contact met buitenaardsen -
We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
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We simply assume that the way we see things is the way they really are or the way they should be. And our attitudes and behaviors grow out of these assumptions.
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We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
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What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.
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What was God doing before the divine creation?
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What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
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When all else fails, give up and go to the library.
Source: 11/22/63: A Novel (2016) 172 -
When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
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Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.
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Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?
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Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.
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Women. They are a complete mystery.
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Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Source: On Writing (2002) 130 -
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
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You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
Source: On Writing (2002) 275 -
You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.
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