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An international race in the relevant technologies is getting under way at this point, not necessarily with an understanding of where that race leads in the long run, but strongly motivated by the short-term payoffs. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#international #leads #long #long run #motivated

What I am most proud of is the legacy of hope that FIFA and football leaves around the world. It makes all of the efforts and energy I pour into this job worth it. ↗

— Sepp Blatter

#around #efforts #energy #fifa #football

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have. ↗

— K. Eric Drexler

#build #copy #could #effort #factories

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#any #except #funny #i #neither

Well, the research into it affected me. And the novel, it very much strengthened my faith. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#faith #into #me #much #novel

The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their materialism. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#chief #difficulty #divine #materialism #men

But the first differentiation of its reflection in the manifested World is purely Spiritual, and the Beings generated in it are not endowed with a consciousness that has any relation to the one we conceive of. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#beings #conceive #consciousness #differentiation #endowed

We recognise in the finished art, which is the result of these conditions, the best words in the best order - poetry; and to put this essential poetry into different classes is impossible. ↗

— John Drinkwater

#best #classes #conditions #different #essential

The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#difficulty #esoteric #every #however #know

If I could afford to live in London I would. ↗

— Minnie Driver

#could #i #if i could #live #london