"The human brain cannot release enough neurotransmitters to feel emotion a thousand times as strong as the grief of one funeral. A prospective risk going from 10,000,000 deaths to 100,000,000 deaths does not multiply by ten the strength of our determination to stop it. It adds one more zero on paper for our eyes to glaze over."

-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Strong Quotes #Determination Quotes #Zero Quotes

“There is a segment of the American population that has been excluded from the national myth, and that should be redressed.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.”
“We're emotionally unfit. We expect things to be given to us that other generations had to earn. We think we're supposed to get homes with no money down and be supported by the government if we're unemployed.”
“Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired”
“He tells me that the best man I will ever find will be attracted to other women. I hear this as another fact I am too old not to know. More proof of how unprepared I am to love anyone.”
“If God were to exist for the entire humanity, he would be profoundly vile, as he allows the existence of unfathomable sin, stupidity, madness, and misery for no reason than his own despicable enjoyment. God exists though, not for all humanity, but for a one chosen man - a philosopher - who is bound to answer the greatest philosophical question, the question about the nature of the questioner's existence, which progressively quenches the divine vanity.”
“Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us.”

Source : Mark Kurlansky (2011). “Cod”, p.204, Random House
“For most of human history, musicians, artists, they've been part of the community â€” connectors and openers, not untouchable stars.”

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