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"Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist."
"You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct."
"The world today has 6.8 billion people...that's headed up to about 9 billion. If we do a really great job on vaccines, health care, reproductive health services, we could lower that by perhaps 10 to 15 percent."
"Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up."
"There are people who drove me crazy, but they got the job done. And when I see that person again, I nod my head. Respect."
"Some people do have softer boundaries."
"No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person."
"You are where you are and what you are because of yourself, nothing else. Nature is neutral. Nature doesn't care. If you do what other successful people do, you will enjoy the same results and rewards that they do. And if you don't, you won't."
"What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?"
"I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. ... because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law."
"If you are an enemy to your own mind, other people have to become enemies too, sooner or later. Until you understand, until you can love the thoughts that appear in your mind, then you can love the rest of us. You work with the projector -the mind - not the projected world. I can't really love you until I question the mind that thinks it sees you outside itself . . ."
"Love is a connection that can only be cultivated between two people when it exists within each one of them - we can only love others as much as we love ourselves."
"God wants people to meet Him when they meet us."
"The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile."
"Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes."
"There are people who vindicate the world, who help others live just by their presence."
"Most people go on living their everyday life: half-frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragic-comedy that is being performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world."
"People find my things sometimes aggressive. But I don't see it as aggressive. I see it as romantic, dealing with a dark side of personality."
"People in Washington seem as hypnotized by precedence as though they were hens with their beaks on a chalk line."
"People's identities as Indians, as Asians, or as members of the human race, seemed to give way - quite suddenly - to sectarian identification with Hindu, Muslim, or Sikh communities."
