"People resist a census, but give them a……" — Max Barry
"People resist a census, but give them a profile page and they'll spend all day telling you who they are."
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13 Quotes by Max Barry
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I usually like to interact with people who don't speak until it's necessary but I was intimidated by Carl's physique.…
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The most fundamental thing about a person is desire. It defines them. Tell me what a person wants, truly wants,…
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I don't play the lottery. I don't care what my horoscope says. I think most things about the world could…
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I will not be what I was made, but what I make.
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My own fault. The equipment had safeties but your primary piece of protective equipment was your brain. There was a…
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That's the thing you learn about values: they're what people make up to justify what they did.
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There's no requirement that jobs be meaningful. If there was, half the country would be unemployed.
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Elizabeth is smart, ruthless, and emotionally damaged ... [i]f Elizabeth's brain was a person, it would have scars, tattoos, and…
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Monday morning and there's one less donut than there should be. Keen observers note the reduced mass straightaway but stay…
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I read once that you need two things to be happy: any two of health, money, and love. You can…
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every story written is marks upon a page The same marks, repeated, only differently arranged
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She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they actually…
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I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is…
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We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace.
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Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.
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A friend to all is a friend to none.
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