"The stupid woman is the one who thinks she doesnâ€™t need any help."

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Source : Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.12, Atlantic Books Ltd

Herman Koch

#Stupid Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Needs Quotes

“People are not born heroes or villains; theyâ€™re created by the people around them.”
“She worked her toes into the sand, feeling the tiny delicious pain of the friction of tiny chips of silicon against the tender flesh between her toes. That's life. It hurts, it's dirty, and it feels very, very good.”

Source : Orson Scott Card, Scott Orson (1997). “Children of the Mind”, Turtleback Books
“Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.”

Source : James E. Talmage (2015). “Jesus the Christ”, p.206, Latter-day Strengths
“What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.”
“The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or do you want to put it in the stock market?" They're trying to push money into the stock market, into hedge funds, to temporarily bid up prices. Then, all of a sudden, the Fed can raise interest rates, let the stock market prices collapse and the people will lose even more in the stock market than they would have by the negative interest rates in the bank. So it's a pro-Wall Street financial engineering gimmick.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I hope to get my name out there more in the Spanish-language business side of the world.”
“You're going to fall, but you got to stand.”
“I advocate as a futurist and also as a member of the Transhumanist Party, that we never let artificial intelligence completely go on its own. I just don't see why the human species needs an artificial entity, an artificial intelligence entity, that's 10,000 times smarter than us. I just don't see why that could ever be a good thing.”

Source : Source: www.esquire.com

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