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"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."
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Personal Development
"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
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Personal Development
"Do you genuinely love people? Or at least make an effort to like them? Your first impressions will be made easier and more successful when you start with your heart."
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Personal Development
"People do not understand what a great revenue economy is."
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Personal Development
"People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messed cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown."
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Personal Development
"People will not remember what you did for living,they will remember how you touched them with kindness and loving."
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Personal Development
"Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
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Personal Development
"The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not."
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Personal Development
"I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago."
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"Control over the use of one's ideas really constitutes control over other people's lives; and it is usually used to make their lives more difficult."
People
"The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness."
Reason
"The paradigm of competition is a race: by rewarding the winner, we encourage everyone to run faster. When capitalism really works this way, it does a good job; but its defenders are wrong in assuming it always works this way."
Capitalism
"There is nothing wrong with wanting pay for work, or seeking to maximize one's income, as long as one does not use means that are destructive."
Work
"The desire to be rewarded for one's creativity does not justify depriving the world in general of all or part of that creativity."
Creativity
"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."
Life
"People sometimes ask me if it is a sin in the Church of Emacs to use vi. Using a free version of vi is not a sin; it is a penance. So happy hacking."
People
"Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn."
History
"Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can."
God
"All governments should be pressured to correct their abuses of human rights."
Rights
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