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I'm against fashionable thinking.
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Authority is not power; that's coercion. Authority is not knowledge; that's persuasion, or seduction. Authority is simply that the author has the…
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I'm against ignorance. I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking. I'm against fashionable thinking. I am against the whole cliché of the moment.
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A surprising number of government committees will make important decisions on fundamental matters with less attention than each individual would give to…
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or…
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Anything that reduces war-related destruction should not be considered altogether immoral.
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As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would…
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Clearly, the first task is to gain acceptance of a more reasonable view of the future, one that opens possibilities rather than…
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Because of new technologies, new wealth, new conditions of domestic life and of international relations, unprecedented criteria and issues are coming up…
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Deterrence itself is not a preeminent value; the primary values are safety and morality.
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For if enough people were really convinced that growth should be halted, and if they acted on that conviction, then billions of…
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and…
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I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned…
— George Carlin
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'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy…
— Robert Ruark
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There is no limit to childishness, if a person starts attacking the other one, they just strike back. Your weak point? Secret?…
— Unknown Author
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I wrote 'Millie's Cafe' driving out of Ft. Worth, Texas one time. I was in a dust storm in my old bus.…
— Fred Eaglesmith
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I didn't even want to sing, honestly. I started thinking about how long the journey was, how far all of us had…
— Phillip Phillips
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I’m not going to let my insecurities keep me from having a good time. I think that if you don’t loose your…
— Christina Ricci
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What motivates me is an ideal of thinking about how football should be. And to try to get near this way of…
— Arsene Wenger
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Only it’s just the same. In fact, do you know, because of all that pressure, and worry, and fear, it’s worse. There…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Science fiction isn’t just thinking about the world out there. It’s also thinking about how that world might be—a particularly important exercise…
— Samuel R. Delany
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When you live for others' opinions, you are dead. I don't want to live thinking about how I'll be remembered.
— Carlos Slim
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Thinking about how disturbingly herdlike people become in so many different contexts—mimetic theory forces you to think about that, which is knowledge…
— Peter Thiel
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For some years I have spent my time on exactly these questions - both in thinking about ways to prevent war, and…
— Herman Kahn
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