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"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The fact that the Prophet cared for every human being and tried his best to ensure their security in the hereafter must be the most telling of his compassionate and merciful characteristics."
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Personal Development

"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
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Personal Development

"You're better off being a brick layer if you're going to play guitar than a sheet metal worker."
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"I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients."
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Personal Development

"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"I'm sensitive about my image of being hard to reach."
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Personal Development

"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
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"Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary reality upside down."
Technology

"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."
Books

"The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There is absolutely no evidentiary reason to maintain this belief."
Life

"Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had."
Being

"I am certain there is too much certainty in the world."
Certainty

"In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought."
Society

"Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled."
Debate

"We all live every day in virtual environments, defined by our ideas."
Creativity
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