Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force to rise from a base condition to great fortune.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Cunning and deceit will every time serve a man better than force to rise from a base condition to great fortune.
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
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Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.
~ Jonathan Haidt
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In a very deep sense, I think the biggest miracle that we need to create the super powerful A.I. is already behind us. It’s already in the rearview mirror. We just needed an algorithm that could learn and a network architecture that could somehow encode the knowledge and the capability to reason.
~ Sam Altman
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The revolution is not an apple that falls when it is ripe. You have to make it fall.
~ Che Guevara
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National loyalty is founded in the love of place, of the customs and traditions that have been inscribed in the landscape and of the desire to protect these good things through a common law and a common loyalty.
~ Roger Scruton
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Man is in love and loves what vanishes. What more is there to say?
~ William Butler Yeats
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Every man has his personal devil waiting for him somewhere.
~ John le Carré
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I haven’t a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.
~ Mark Twain
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