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When conflicted between two choices, take neither.
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I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.
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Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.
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Don't cross a river if it is four feet deep on average.
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If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.
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Wit seduces by signaling intelligence without nerdiness.
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Much of modern life is preventable chronic stress injury.
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If humans fight the last war, nature fights the next one.
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Procrastination is the soul rebelling against entrapment.
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What they call play (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.
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Daily news and sugar confuse our system in the same manner.
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Intelligence consists in ignoring things that are irrelevant.
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Charm is the ability to insult people without offending them.
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Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone
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The more data we have, the more likely we are to drown in it.
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If my detractors knew me better they would hate me even more.
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It is all about redundancy. Nature likes to overinsure itself.
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A man without a heroic bent starts dying at the age of thirty.
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Weak men act to satisfy their needs, stronger men their duties.
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A verbal threat is the most authentic certificate of impotence.
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What fools call wasting time is most often the best investment.
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Randomness works well in search—sometimes better than humans.
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Writing is the art of repeating oneself without anyone noticing.
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Your reputation is harmed the most by what you say to defend it.
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Mental clarity is the child of courage, not the other way around.
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Experience is devoid of the cherry-picking that we find in studies.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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Being an entrepreneur is an existential, not just a financial thing.
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We didn't get where we are thanks to the sissy notion of resilience.
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Much of aging comes from a misunderstanding of the effect of comfort.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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1960
(age 64)
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