Robert J. Wilson famous quotes
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The more internal freedom you achieve, the more you want: it is more fun to be happy than sad, more enjoyable to choose your own emotions than to have them inflicted on you by mechanical glandular processes, more pleasurable to solve your problems than to be stuck with them forever.
-- Robert J. Wilson -
Hedonic Engineering -- The human nervous system studying and improving itself: intelligence studying and improving intelligence. Why be depressed, dumb, and agitated when you can be happy, smart, and tranquil?
-- Robert J. Wilson
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?
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Wouldn't you want to be indicted by the govenment for a high crime? It's a great thrill. It's an honor. It's a compliment. It's fun. I'm enjoying every minute of it!
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Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
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What to paint was a problem for the war artist... the old heroics, the death and glory stuff, were gone forever... the impressionistic technique I had developed was now ineffective, for visual impressions were not enough.
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I never imagined anyone like you, Blaire. But every time I think about forever with you, I’m humbled that you chose me.
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In my experience, ghosts are made up only of the living, people you know are out there but are forever out of range
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You can't run forever. There's only so much pavement that the road makers lay down. After a while, the highway quits going north and it just turns into sky. And you can't go anywhere in the sky unless you have a plane or some kind of rocket.
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From earliest times, humans - explorers and thinkers - have wanted to figure out the shape of their world. Forever, the way we've done that is through storytelling. It is difficult to let the truth get in the way of a good story.
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I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.
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