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Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes November 2012 · 2012-11-07T01:35:01.910Z · LW · GW
  • Fele: You are really hot
  • Angela: Thank you.
  • Fele, Nah, it's not your own achievement

-Tesis (1996)

Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes November 2012 · 2012-11-07T01:20:33.975Z · LW · GW

I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it. -George Carlin

Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes October 2012 · 2012-10-05T02:32:31.627Z · LW · GW

"more than you currently believe you're capable of" is any-thing.

Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes October 2012 · 2012-10-05T02:21:32.166Z · LW · GW

Take "infinite" as you would take the recursiveness of language, there is a set of finite words or particles from which you can just "create" infinite combinations.

About the numer of dreams, do you reckon there is something like a pool of dreams we use one by one until it's empty?

Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes October 2012 · 2012-10-03T15:44:51.272Z · LW · GW

The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything. -Waking life (2001)

Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes September 2012 · 2012-09-09T01:40:49.756Z · LW · GW

Love is experienceable, not intelligible.

  • Anonymous.
Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes August 2012 · 2012-08-11T03:35:41.229Z · LW · GW

Who taught you that senseless self-chastisement? I give you the money and you take it! People who can't accept a gift have nothing to give themselves. » -De Gankelaar (Karakter 1997)

Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes August 2012 · 2012-08-11T03:23:08.912Z · LW · GW

Nulla è più raro al mondo, che una persona abitualmente sopportabile. -Giacomo Leopardi

(Nothing more rare in the world than a person who is habitually bearable)

Comment by Aurora on Rationality Quotes August 2012 · 2012-08-11T03:16:45.042Z · LW · GW

I know by experience that I'm not able to endure the presence of a single person for more than three hours. After this period, I lost lucidity, become obfuscated and end up irritated or sunk in a deep depression" -Julio Ramon Ribeyro