Larry Brilliant Quotes

#1. I make a hundred mistakes a day. I am, and have been, and will continue to be, wrong about almost everything.

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#2. The great thing about gurus is not that they make you feel everybody's love. It's that they make you feel that you can love everybody.

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#3. A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.

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#4. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

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#5. Many of the issues we face in dealing with rapid climate change are well suited to an engineering mind.

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#6. If I have a 100 percent batting average, you should fire me, because it means we haven't tried anything really noble.

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#7. If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.

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#8. Global warming is something that happens to all of us, all at once.

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#9. The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last.

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