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"We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude."
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"Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't."
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"I think the thing that I most appreciate now is that stereotypes involving Jewish identity activate fears of persecution that exist in the present day."
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"We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude."
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"When we see a good-looking woman with a not-so-good-looking man, we assume that the man must have a good bank balance. When we see a good-looking man with a not-so-good-looking woman, we assume that she must be good in bed."
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"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."
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"But she's a redhead, so she's probably evil, even at her tender age.''I thought you liked redheads.''I do. What's your point?"
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"Telling people they look relaxed makes them look relaxed."
People
"I was always the youngest person in class, skinny, scrawny, no good at sports. I asserted myself by being smart. But then I got to college and started to get C's and D's. That was fantastic. I no longer had to be the smartest person in the room."
Education
"It was a December night so cold and clear that the air felt like the air of the Moon - lung-burning, mentholated and pure."
Nature
"And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened."
Life
"When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon."
Ethics
"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."
Old
"Sometimes it just feels really really wonderful to be alive."
Life
"So I got to thinking that perhaps that's what money is: a crystallization-or, rather, a homogenization-of time and free will into those things we call dollars and pounds and yen and euros. Money multiplies your time. It also expands your agency and broadens the number of things you can do accordingly. Big-time lottery winners haven't won ten million dollars-they've won ten thousand person-years of time to do pretty much anything they want anywhere on Earth. Windfalls are like the crystal meth version of time and free will."
Economics
"The advent of cellphones may, in the end, be no more relevant than the ability of laptops to change our written documents into ones using cool new fonts."
Technology
"Is that all time is - our perception of how quickly it does or does not pass?"
Time
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