The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
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But when I said that nothing had been done I erred in one important matter. We had definitely committed ourselves and were halfway out of our ruts. We had put down our passage money--booked a sailing to Bombay. This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one's favor all manner of unforeseen incidents, meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt would have come his way. I learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
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The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation.
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In the fields and woods more than anything else all things come to those who wait, because all things are on the move, and are sure sooner or later to come your way. To absorb a thing is better than to learn it, and we absorb what we enjoy. We learn things at school; we absorb them in the fields and woods. When we look upon Nature with fondness and appreciation, she meets us halfway and takes a deeper hold on us than when studiously conned. Hence I say the way of knowledge of Nature is the way of love and enjoyment, and is more surely found in the open air than in the school room or the laboratory.
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.
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As the number of available jobs has decreased in border states like Texas, cities halfway across America have begun to see an influx of illegal immigrants in search of employment.
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The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway.'
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There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.
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Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I'm halfway through my fishburger and I realize, Oh my God. I could be eating a slow learner.
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As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever.
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He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash of glorious intuition, but by the shoddy, untidy process halfway between the two by which one usually gets to know things.
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A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
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America has global trade with plenty of nations that provide inexpensive labor, but it's better for us when they're in our own hemisphere, rather than sending that business halfway around the world.
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So boring you fall asleep halfway through her name.
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I feel so useless. Here I am nearly halfway through life, and what have I done?... I have nothing to show for all my years.
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As long as I can sing halfway decent, I'd rather sing than act. There's nothing like being in good voice, feeling good, having good numbers to do and having a fine orchestra.
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A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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When you have completed 95 of your journey you are halfway there.
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The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.
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The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
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Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.
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Quit now, you'll never make it. If you disregard this advice, you'll be halfway there.
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A goal properly set is halfway reached.
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A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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Believe you can and you're halfway there.
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If you have the desire, you are halfway there.
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When you have completed 95% of your journey you are halfway there.
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