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"It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible."


"One of them, for example, which will probably haunt me more than any other is the problem of communication."

"Liberalism is Rationalism in politics."

"Nobody can be perfect unless he admits his faults, but if he has faults how can he be perfect?"


"Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it's supposed to do."

"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."

"Fidelity to conscience is inconsistent with retiring modesty. If it be so, let the modesty succumb. It can be only a false modesty which can be thus endangered."


"It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea."

"Only ,a lonely heart Can tell What it meansTo be lonely."


"The Internet offers an interesting combination of advertising and community by participating in the community you can become an advertisement for yourself."

"Ya no la quiero, es cierto, pero tal vez la quiero.Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido."

"I was transformed the dayMy ego shattered,And all the superficial, materialThings that matteredTo me before,Suddenly ceasedTo matter."


"Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good."

"In order to fly, all one must do is simply miss the ground."

"To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."

"Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."


"The expression a woman wears on her face is far more important than the clothes she wears on her back."

"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."

"We are on strike, we, the men of the mind.We are on strike against self-immolation. We are on strike against the creed of unearned rewards and unrewarded duties. We are on strike against the dogma that the pursuit of one's happiness is evil. We are on strike against the doctrine that life is guilt."

"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."


"I often wonder why I am the one who remember all the pain?"

"Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there."

"I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet."

"Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?"

"I still find it hard to understand that anyone could argue that you can't have machines that exhibit consciousness."


"Shakespeare was not meant for taverns, nor for tavern louts."

"Don't let negative and toxic people rent space in your head. raise the rent and kick them out!"

"When a man is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, I'm human.' When he behaves like a beast, he says 'After all, I'm only human.'"
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