"All forms of power - even based on the consensus of the democratic system - react when they are being attacked, or when those who exercise power become a target."

-- Dario Fo

#Exercise Quotes #Target Quotes #Form Quotes

“One of the interesting characteristics of the Ego Tunnel is that it creates (as Finnish philosopher Antti Revonsuo called it) a robust "out-of-the brain experience", a highly realistic experience of not operating on internal models, but of effortlessly being in direct and immediate contact with the external world - and oneself.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.”
“I always have to start with a character that I can really hook into, and then build from there. I have writer friends who start from a world, an object or some kind of concept that they then hone and widdle into a story. But, for me, it has to be a character that I can really sink my teeth into and live with, for months and months.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.”
“English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning.”
“I think more than anything, people just want to be understood.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.”

Source : Herman Melville (2009). “Billy Budd, Sailor and Selected Tales”, p.312, OUP Oxford
“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”

Source : "Twelve Virtues of Rationality". Personal Website, yudkowsky.net.

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