"Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Giving Up Quotes #People Quotes #Regulation Quotes

“If you want to change your life you have to raise your standards.”
“The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.”
“Commanders and senior officers should die with troops. The honour of the British Empire and the British Army is at stake.”
“Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.”

Source : "The Traveler". Book by John Twelve Hawks, 2005.
“My father is black and my mother is white. Therefore, I could answer to either, which kind of makes me a racial Lone Ranger, caught between two communities.”
“Besides the guilt of sin and the power of sin, there is the stain of sin.”
“A lot of period pieces we see are adaptations of novels - we always know the story.”
“And the user may have a higher comfort level deciding what information to provide rather than worrying about what inferences might be made from what they've gathered.”

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