- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
People Quotes
Quotes about people, privacy, and human nature.
This page collects quotes touching on people in different senses - novelists describing how characters take on independent vitality, and technologists warning how easily people's movements and data can be tracked. It's a broader mix than a single theme, much like Like Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dalai
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
- Filtered
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- Nov 07, 2020
Does Facebook behave like a tool in my hand, or a firehose designed to spew at me in accordance with other peoples' agendas? Concretely: can I write my own client to present a filtered view of the Facebook stream, or have other people do that for me?
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
Money is just a way to keep score. The best people in any field are motivated by passion. That becomes more true the higher the skill level gets.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who study primate societies make a distinction between two kinds of cultural interactions, agonic and hedonic. In agonic societies, you gain status by asserting dominance over others. In hedonic societies, you gain status by drawing attention to yourself. Open source is a hedonic culture.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's important that people know what they are eating and especially to know what their children are eating.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don't seem to care about the fat aspect.
- Eating
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fast food chains spend a large amount of marketing to get the attention of children. People form their eating habits as children so they try to nurture clients as youngsters.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few people realize that the U.S. government does not have the power to order the recall of contaminated meat.
- Respect
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the way, I'm not a vegetarian. I have a lot of respect for people who are vegetarian for religious or ethical reasons.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just angry at the sort of things that are winding up in ground beef. I'm angry that other people - mainly children - are going to be sickened by eating a hamburger.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Different people, in good faith, can look at the same fact and interpret it differently. But that's where an interesting conversation begins.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all in favor of animal rights, but I'd like to see the food movement take a much stronger stand in defense of basic human rights. If you're a vegan or a vegetarian, you should care about the people who are picking your fruits and vegetables by hand.
- Idiots
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- Nov 07, 2020