Bernard Avishai famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Fluid and energetic and wild very, very smart and very, very funny.
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Shakespeare was a smart dude. He was the president of Rome.
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God only wants for us what we would want for ourselves if we were smart enough to want it.
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My mom's a psychologist, and I think that has influenced me on a personal level. Plus, I'm just generally interested in visualization and humanity, social activity and technology, and what happens in aggregate.
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Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you.
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The best technology is aimed far enough in the future that it stands out, but close enough to the present that it blends in.
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It's true that humanity has seen a succession of crises, wars and atrocities, but this negative side is offset by advances in technology and cultural exchanges.
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I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.
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God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
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The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.
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