"The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity."
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"Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption. Christ alone is the conquering of death."
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"I need a healthy injection of cynicism right now."
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"You need to be surrounded by good advisers, but you also need to trust your instinct."
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"If you have to have it, it's ego. If you have to not have it, it's ego. Hold life lightly and it will deliver what you need and release what you don't."
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"The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs."
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"If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things."
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"It's very challenging. The most important thing you need as a sportsman is to be clear on what you're actually doing."
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"Pleasantries are low entropy, biased so far that they stop being an earnest inquiry and become ritual. Ritual has its virtues, of course, and I don't quibble with them in the slightest. But if we really want to start fathoming someone, we need to get them speaking in sentences we can't finish."
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"For me, everything is God. Everything and everyone. So it was just, God needs me now, now, now."
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"Whenever you think that your needs are not being met, you’re telling the story of a future"
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"What you know will keep you from what you need to know if you don't remain a novice."
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"Instruction tables will have to be made up by mathematicians with computing experience and perhaps a certain puzzle-solving ability. There need be no real danger of it ever becoming a drudge, for any processes that are quite mechanical may be turned over to the machine itself."
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"The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism."
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"The discovery of nuclear reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind any more than the discovery of matches."
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"No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith."
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"The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new."
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"You have to know the rules, otherwise you have no tools to communicate to the audience, but to keep it fresh you have to break some. I don't choose genres as the element, but the material itself is the element, then I'll decide what genre I need. That's just how I work."
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"No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other."
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"It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good."
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