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"We need to inject some old-fashioned American values and common-sense, practical thinking into our energy policy."

"He looked at the machine, its cabinets all standing open; it should be destroyed, he thought. But he had no idea how to do it, nor any will to try. Destruction was not his line; and a machine is more …"

"It is no exaggeration to say that younger men who come in personal contact with him feeling as in a holy presence, not only uttering nothing base, but afraid of even of thinking unworthy thoughts, whi…"

"Brain drugs may make us feel better, but they do not solve the problems that led us to feel miserable"

"It is true that many of the problems with which professional philosophers deal do require quite a high level of abstract thought. However, the same is true of almost any intellectual pursuit: philosop…"

"Quite frankly, SSE's alignment requirement is the most utterly retarded idea since eating your own shit."

"He knew that most machines are amoral, neither bad nor good. But by the way you built and shaped them you in turn shaped men, women, and children to be bad or good. A car, for instance, dead brute, un…"

"Human and societal security should be seen as complementary to state security, and security must be thought of in multi-sum and multi-dimensional terms ."

"Don't puzzle the mind with too many inquiries. One finds it difficult to put one single thing into practising, but dares invite distraction by filling the mind with too many things."

"Hold back your mind from pride, for pride comes only from ignorance. The man who does not know thinks that he is great, that he has done this or that great thing; the wise man knows that only God is g…"

"I’m not sure. I’m not sure if you talk to the opposition, they would consider that to be an insult. They think they are doing a tremendous job."

"Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation."

"That was the theme of the Million Mom March: I don't need a brain — I've got a womb."

"The power of our intention and the energy it unleashes are dependent on our levels of coherence and intensity. The affirmation of our positive intentions in thought, feeling and action increases the p…"

"I like to think of criticism as the highest intellectual effort that mankind is capable of, and above all, I like to think of self-criticism as the most difficult attainment of an educated man."

"I think I have a dick in my brain. I don't need to have one between my legs."

"I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival."

"It is the event that is the immediate entity of perception; Nature is the sum-total of events, and every instrument of thought that our minds employ can be traced back to its ultimate origin in events…"

"The aim of modern propaganda is no longer to modify ideas, but to provoke action."

"Altruism itself was so insisted upon in the latter half of the nineteenth century that … theory and practice, words and deeds, stood in liveliest contradiction. … Everywhere a conflict rent the world …"