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“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one, just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you’ve had.”

- “Do you think I have a crush on her?”
- “Well only your heart knows”
- “You mean my brain, not my heart. We do whatever the brain tells us to do.”
- “Technically, yes,but we still say it’s from our heart.”

“Why do people die?”

“Because we’re evolving. One individual can’t withstand all the energy of evolution, so we go through the alternation of generations. Of course, that’s just one theory.”

“time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room”

زمان نیز دچار اشتباه میشود و در نتیجه میتواند لحظه ای را در یک اتاق تا ابد بر جای نگه دارد.

“the human brain has evolved to process the flood of information generated by face-to-face interactions. To replace this rich flow with a single bit is the ultimate insult to our social processing machinery. To say it’s like driving a Ferrari under the speed limit is an understatement; the better simile is towing a Ferrari behind a mule.”

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

“balance the profit you gain against the costs measured in terms of “your life”.”
(Thoreau’s new economics)

“Can democracy—by definition the majority—tolerate enemies? The question is as follows: “Would you agree to deny the freedom of speech to every political party that has in its charter the banning of freedom of speech?” Let’s go one step further: “Should a society that has elected to be tolerant be intolerant about intolerance?”

He was captured near Smolensk, and was supposed to shoot himself. He wanted to, I know he wanted to…They had run out of bullets—not only to shoot, he had no bullets to kill himself.


A Soviet officer doesn’t surrender, we don’t have captives, we have traitors. Thus spoke Comrade Stalin, who renounced his own son who had been captured.

“I watch films about the war—not right. I read a book—not right. No, not it. It doesn’t come off. I start talking, myself—that’s also not it. Not as frightening and not as beautiful. Do you know how beautiful a morning at war can be? Before combat…You look and you know: this may be your last. The earth is so beautiful…And the air…And the dear sun…”