"If people got hit on the head by a baseball bat every week, pretty soon they would invent reasons why getting hit on the head with a baseball bat was a good thing."

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Source : "How to Seem (and Be) Deep" by Eliezer Yudkowsky, lesswrong.com. October 14, 2007.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Baseball Quotes #People Quotes #Bats Quotes

“The other feature is a gymnasium named after another dead politician who was gifted with fast and extremely sure hands.”
“Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life's magic.”
“I have a really dark, rich, thick sense of humor.”
“I've been nominated twice before as actor in a leading part. Now I'm nominated as actor in a supporting part. If I don't win, I'll just wait until I'm nominated for being in the theater during the show. Do they have one like that?”
“Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.”

Source : Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.55, UPNE
“Five years from now on the web for free youâ€™ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university.”
“For me, restrictions are not always negative. Restrictions can push creativity. I like restrictions.”
“The bagel is a lonely roll to eat all by yourself because in order for the true taste to come out you need your family. One to cut the bagels, one to toast them, one to put on the cream cheese and the lox, one to put them on the table and one to supervise.”

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