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Bitcoin is really a fascinating example of how human beings create value, and is not always rational... tt is not a rational currency in that case.

~Alan Greenspan

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Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

~Alan Kay

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Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'.

~Alan Moore

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Do I believe, for example, that by using magic I could fly? No. How would you get around gravity? Impossible. Do I believe that I might be able to project my consciousness into a very, very vivid simulation of flying? Yeah. Yes, I've done that. Yes, that works.

~Alan Moore

Topics: Able Around Believe Consciousness Could Done Example Fly Flying For Example Get Gravity How Impossible Magic Might Project Simulation Using Very Vivid Works Would Yeah Yes You I Believe I Believe That

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My only problem with fans is when they turn pro. For example, when all the professional writers were fired by DC in the '60s, they brought in a generation of comic book fans who would have paid to have written these stories.

~Alan Moore

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Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.

~Albert Schweitzer

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Example is leadership.

~Albert Schweitzer

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There are, for example, exemptions in FOIA in which the government can withhold certain kinds of information, and the courts have recognized that there is certain documentation that do deserve protection, that certain privileges do apply and do deserve protection.

~Alberto Gonzales

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I began to learn about the camera and the actors. That gave me a lot of the skills. At the same time, advertising gives you a lot of vices, for example, an obsession for a superficial look, but at the same time, it gives you the capacity to synthesize the story - tell a story in one minute.

~Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

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When you're from an unknown place, I think it's hard for you to believe it's possible. You think you have to go to L.A. or New York to make it, but I don't think that's true. I'm glad to be an example that you can make it from where you are. All you need is talent and hard work.

~Alessia Cara

Topics: Believe Example Glad Go Hard Hard Work Make Need New New York Place Possible Talent Think True Unknown Where Work York You I Think

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