"Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive."

-- Leland Stanford

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“Once you've created an intelligence so smart, the real job of that intelligence is to protect itself from other intelligences becoming more intelligent than it. It's just kind of like human beings. The way you look at money or the way you look at the success of your child, you always want to make sure that as far as it gets, it can protect itself and continue forward. So I think any type of intelligence, no matter what it is, is going to have this very basic principle to protect the power that it has gained.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com
“The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.”
“Experience enables me to depose to the comfort and blessing that literature can prove in seasons of sickness and sorrow.”
“it is the very nature of sin to prevent man from meditating on spiritual things.”

Source : Mary Martha Sherwood (1835). “The history of Henry Milner”, p.273
“Remember this, the choices you make in life, make you.”
“Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.”
“The hatred we bear our enemies injures their happiness less than our own.”
“Our children think our world will end. It's a tragic thing. Adults don't think that. They don't see that we are eating the planet. But we are. If you take all the biomass of vertebrates on the planet, 98% are men and their domestic animals. All the wild animals in the world make up only 2%.”

Source : "Yann Arthus-Bertrand: Looking down on creation". Interview With Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2011.

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