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I'd heard a lot of Asian people were rooting for me, but I had no idea. I was stunned. They were... impassioned, especially compared to Japan. I coul….

When you talk about the Final Fantasy series, the series started selling better after 7, and that was the base idea for the center of the set list fo….

For some people, their idea of getting tough is longer suspended sentences..

There is a reason people in America are disappointed and restless. If opportunity seems like it's been slipping away, that's because it has. And libe….

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unh….

The Q I loathe and despise, the Q every single writer I know loathes and despises, is this one: 'Where,' the reader asks, 'do you get your ideas?' It….

Her library would have been valuable to a bibliophile except she treated her books execrably. I would rarely open a volume that she had not desecrate….

Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if….

Friend, you cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. And what one person receives without working for, anoth….

The idea of discussing psychological and philosophical ideas in a visual medium was really exciting to me. I thought I was going to go into philosoph….

Work on causal theories of knowledge - early work by Armstrong, and Dretske, and Goldman - seemed far more satisfying. As I started to see the ways i….

Away with the idea of getting independence first, and looking for liberty afterwards... Our liberties, once lost, may be lost forever..

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause..

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The idea of man as the dominant mammal of the earth whose whole behaviour tends to be dominated by his own desire for dominance gripped me. It seemed….

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When a country doesn't have a good economic infrastructure, that harms the country. With Stripe, the idea is that by providing better infrastructure,….

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We gave up on the idea of trying to make the record a good representation of the live performance..

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across..