"I know [people] think I'm taller because it's so close and I look stretched out, but I'm just 4-8."
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"Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well."
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"I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" - i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing - or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth."
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"I got exposed to so many different cultures and people."
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"Singing a song, playing sports - anything that entertains, that takes people away from their own problems, is good."
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"Rather than risk starting their own businesses, most people seek safer environments, preferring job security to freedom and a steady paycheck to greater wealth. Their fear of failing is greater than the joy of freedom."
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"I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up."
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"Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice."
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"If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you."
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"When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers with which to eat.' And we're supposed to get politically discouraged? Oh please. We're being opposed by people who denounced the fork."
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"When solutions are offered us by the people who originally brought us the problem, we do well to be suspicious."
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"The little idiosyncrasies that only I know about: that's what made her my wife. Oh she had the goods on me too, she knew all my little peccadilloes. People call these things imperfections, but they're not. Ah, that's the good stuff!"
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"You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it."
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"It's rare that you see an artist in his 30s or 40s able to really contribute something amazing. Of course, there are some people who are innately curious, forever little kids in their awe of life, but they're rare."
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"Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves."
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"Why can't we all just get along?"
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"Introverts are capable of acting like extroverts for the sake of work they consider important, people they love, or anything they value highly."
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"You're told that you're in your head too much, a phrase that's often deployed against the quiet and cerebral. Or maybe there's another word for such people: thinkers."
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"One thing I learned a long time ago as a prosecutor is that it's tough to get people to obey a law if there is not penalty for breaking it"
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"I know some people say "Keep your eyes on the prize," but I disagree. When your eyes are stuck on the prize, you're going to keep stumbling and crashing into things. If you really want to get ahead, you've got to keep your eyes focused on the path."
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