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Quotes by Writer
"Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time."
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"Genius is essentially creative; it bears the stamp of the individual who possesses it."
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"Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything."
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"We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before."
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"No single thing abides, and all things are fucked up."
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"Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited."
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"Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and stop watching ourselves live."
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"With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure."
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"The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness."
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"It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing."
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"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."
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"The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization."
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"But as he plodded along a vague and almost hallucinatory pall hazed over his mind; he found himself at one point, with no notion of how it could be, a step from an almost certain fatal cliffside fall-falling humiliatingly and helplessly, he thought; on and on, with no one even to witness it. Here there existed no one to record his or anyone else's degradation, and any courage or pride which might manifest itself here at the end would go unmarked: the dead stones, the dust-stricken weeds dry and dying, perceived nothing, recollected nothing, about him or themselves."
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"I am suggesting that we recognize that in network and interface research there is something as profound (and potential wild) as Artificial Intelligence."
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"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."
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"A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils."
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"Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one."
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"I can't think of a performer who is better on television than in person."
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"I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution."
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"We can either own our circumstances and be creative in them, or we can throw up our hands and say, I cannot be held accountable because the conditions are not ideal."
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"Style is the hallmark of a temperament stamped upon the material at hand."
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"Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple."
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"When schools produce students who learned to think on the left or on the right, they're not thinking for themselves."
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"Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant...The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives."
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"It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism."
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"We do not just risk repeating history if we sweep it under the carpet, we also risk being myopic about our present."
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