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Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
 
We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn’t build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren’t going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
 
For every ten people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find one who's hacking at the roots.
 
You can't build a reputation on what you're going to do.
 
Something that cannot be explained cannot be seen.
 
Men's maxims reveal their characters.
 
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. 
 
The distinction between responsible moral agents and beings with diminished or no responsibility is coherent, real, and important.
 
Emotions are a critical source of information for learning.
 
Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove.
 
When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you’d like them to be.
 
The poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap.
 
The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.
 
Lots of work has examined the genes involved, most broadly showing that variants that produce lowered dopamine signaling (less dopamine in the synapse, fewer dopamine receptors, or lower responsiveness of these receptors) are associated with sensation seeking, risk taking, attentional problems, and extroversion. Such individuals have to seek experiences of greater intensity to compensate for the blunted dopamine signaling.
 
Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.
 
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure — these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
 
Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. And no, this isn't having "faith" in reason (in the same way that some people have faith in miracles), because we don't "believe" in reason; we use reason.
 
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
 
Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe.
 
Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened and will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life. For ‘consciousness of sin’ is a real event and so are despair and salvation through faith. Those who speak of such things (Bunyan, for instance) are simply describing what has happened to them, whatever gloss anyone may want to put on it.
 
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