"Jared, allow me to share with you my philosophy of human beings. It can be summed up in four words: I like good people."

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“When you control communication, you can hide anything you want.”

“What’s the point of being in charge if you can’t indulge in pointless favoritism.”

“Imagine if every species named itself after its greatest flaw. We could name our species arrogance.”

“You don’t win by getting through all your life not having done anything.”

“In this universe, experience counts.”

““It’s Charlie’s soul,” he repeated. “Or more accurately, it’s a holographic representation of the dynamic electrical system that embodies the consciousness of Charles Boutin.”

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"Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred."

— Carl Sagan

Science1934–1996

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"Echoing the Christian faith in free will, humanists hold that human beings are – or may someday become – free to choose their lives. They forget that the self that does the choosing has not itself bee…"

— John Gray (philosopher)

Philosophy1948

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"My desire and wish is that the things I start with should be so obvious that you wonder why I spend my time stating them. This is what I aim at because the point of philosophy is to start with somethi…"

— Bertrand Russell

Philosophy1872–1970

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"Experience, the interpreter between formative nature and the human race, teaches how that nature acts among mortals; and being constrained by necessity cannot act otherwise than as reason, which is it…"

— Leonardo da Vinci

Mathematics1452–1519

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