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An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
 
The real danger, I think, is not that machines more intelligent than we are will usurp our role as captains of our destinies, but that we will over-estimate the comprehension of our latest thinking tools, prematurely ceding authority to them far beyond their competence.
 
In societies no less than individuals, acknowledging our limitations may ultimately be more humane than denying them.
 
Compassion is the radicalism of our time.
 
Energy follows thought; we move toward, but not beyond, what we can imagine. What we assume, expect, or believe creates and colors our experience. By expanding our deepest beliefs about what is possible, we change our experience of life.
 
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
 
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.
 
Most of us are genuinely unaware that it is possible to change our minds.
 
In fact, war may be just another obstacle an enlightened species learns to overcome, like pestilence, hunger, and poverty.
 
If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?
 
The far-from-original point I will try to make now should seem obvious: There is an unsettling similarity between the rituals of the obsessive-compulsive and the rituals of the observantly religious.
 
Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.
 
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
 
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.
 
Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.
 
No one knows what the nongenetic causes of individuality are. Perhaps people are shaped by modifications of genes that take place after conception, or by haphazard fluctuations in the chemical soup in the womb or the wiring up of the brain or the expression of the genes themselves.
 
The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye.
 
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. 
 
The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.
 
As I said, relationship has true significance only when it is a process of self-revelation, when it is revealing oneself in the very action of relationship. But most of us do not want to be revealed in relationship.
 
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