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That isn’t how I mean it at all. When I say ‘want,’ I am not speaking of preference or passing desire. I am speaking of a life-and-death sort of want.

Direct Truth - Uncompromising, Non-Prescriptive Truths to the Enduring Questions of Life

Kapil Gupta

What were we going to do in the next six months? Whatever looked like the biggest win. I don’t know if I ever dared give this answer, but that was the truth. Plans are just another word for ideas on the shelf. When we thought of good ideas, we implemented them.

Hackers & Painters - Big Ideas From the Computer Age

Paul Graham

People form close friendships by knowing private things about each other, and the reason most people don’t make close friends is because they’re too embarrassed to share anything really important about themselves.

Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

Eliezer Yudkowsky

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