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"Assuming what people want is about as controlled as using fireworks to start a fire."
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"People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster."
"Having that amount of nominations makes me a little nervous, because you feel that the bar is really high, the expectations are really high, but it also feels great."
"The fewer expectations you have, the better."
"We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves."
"It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want."
"If you write in category, you write knowing there's a framework, there are reader expectations."
"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."
"I want to top expectations. I want to blow you away."
"We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to."
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"What further helps to reveal reality is when our personal thinking ceases to take reality for granted."
"My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That hostility is learned in defense; not offense. An often stubborn and prideful world, in its self-destructive, temporary bliss of ignorance, may be violently resistant to the watchful mind."
"I often find that people confuse inner peace with some sense of insensibility whenever something goes wrong. In such cases inner peace is a permit for destruction: The unyielding optimist will pretend that the forest is not burning either because he is too lazy or too afraid to go and put the fire out."
"Christianity is at its purest a philosophy about a person, Jesus Christ, and at its dirtiest a philosophy about requirements and law."
"Christ commands his people to love their enemies, because if not, that would rule out pretty much the entire world."
"I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light."
"All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves."
"It's much easier on the emotions when one sees life as an experiment rather than a struggle for popularity."
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