"Total peace after death, becoming someone else, is the best hope I've got."
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"We are all capable of becoming fundamentalists because we get addicted to other people's wrongness."
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"It is frightening how dependent on drugs we are all becoming and how easy it is for doctors to prescribe them as the universal panacea for our ills."
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"As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons."
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"Men are a thousand times more intent on becoming rich than on acquiring culture, though it is quite certain that what a man IS contributes more to his happiness than what he HAS."
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"Psilocybin, tryptamine, is in my opinion the means to eliminating the future by becoming cognizant of the architecture of eternity, which is modulating time and causing history, essentially."
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"I was an actor before becoming a comedian."
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"Instead of poor America on socialism becoming more like rich America on capitalism, rich America on capitalism is becoming like poor America on socialism."
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"By dint of railing at idiots, one runs the risk of becoming an idiot oneself."
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"The maturing process of becoming a writer is akin to that of a harlot. First you do it for love, then for a few friends, and finally only for money."
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"Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour."
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"That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is."
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"Philosophy is an elegant thing, if anyone modestly meddles with it; but if they are conversant with it more than is becoming, it corrupts them."
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"Becoming a great preacher, like becoming a great artist, requires a life commitment."
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"Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?"
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"In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color."
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"A fully blossomed human potential is enlightenment. It is becoming a child again, and coming back to your original nature."
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"The sinner sins against himself; the wrongdoer wrongs himself, becoming the worse by his own action."
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"The desire of appearing clever often prevents our becoming so."
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"There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy."
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