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'Power' would never have gotten on the air if the folks at Starz weren't saying to themselves, 'This is an underserved audience.' It was a financial decision, not a benevolent decision based on a need to change the industry.
Courtney A. Kemp /
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Think of the universe as a benevolent parent. A child may want a tub of ice-cream and marshmallows, but a wise parent will give it fruits and vegetables instead. That is not what the child wants, but it is what the child needs.
Srikumar Rao / Author
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Parent
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Vegetables
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Tub
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Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.
Clare Balding / Television Presenter
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Attitude
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Dictator
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Cross
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It is an oftentimes dangerous world, and not all of the people in it are nice, sweet and benevolent. It is the nature of man to behave otherwise, and we must find leaders who can show us a better way and still maintains a balanced view.
Mike Medavoy / Film Producer
Balanced
Behave
Benevolent
Nature Man World
Better Way
Oftentimes
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As one of the leaders in the world for AI, I feel tremendous excitement and responsibility to create the most awesome and benevolent technology for society and to educate the most awesome and benevolent technologists - that's my calling.
Fei-Fei Li /
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Calling
Educate
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Ai
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Tremendous
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If you don't believe there's some organising principle, or somebody up in the sky pulling the strings, then it can be very stressful. And nature itself is very arbitrary - it's not malevolent or benevolent; it doesn't even know we're here.
Michael Shannon / Actor
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With a few notable exceptions, literary fiction in the U.K. is dominated by an upper and upper middle-class clique who usually have a tin ear for the demotic and who portray working-class characters with, at best, a benevolent condescension.
Adrian Mckinty / Novelist
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Clique
Notable
Tin
Working Class
Dominated
Ear
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Literary
Literary Fiction
Portray
Upper
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I always found that if you handle a problem in a benevolent way and a transparent way and involve other people, so it's just not your personal opinion, that people get to the other side of these difficult conversations being more enthusiastic.
David M. Kelley / Businessman
Benevolent
Enthusiastic
Handle
Opinion
People
Personal Opinions
Transparent
Way
Always Your People
Conversations
Difficult People Way
Involve
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Why can't Google, which likes to see itself as a 'Don't Be Evil' benevolent force in society, just write us a big check for using our stories, so we can keep checks and balances alive and continue to provide the search engine with our stories?
Maureen Dowd / Columnist
Alive
Benevolent
Evil
Force
Google
Likes
Search Engine
Balances
Check
Checks And Balances
Engine
Provide
Search
Using
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You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.
Hans Bender /
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Being Positive
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Depth
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Evil
Facets
Instance
Mind
God Good Always
Between
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I never examined what I did in any great detail because I thought it would spoil things. I never read the scripts at all carefully, and never wanted to know what was going on, because I felt that being a benevolent alien that's the way it should be.
Tom Baker / Actor
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Scripts
Spoil
Alien
Great Way Never
Carefully
Read
Detail
Examined
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There are two main methodologies of open source development. There's the Apache model, which is design by committee - great for things like web servers. Then you have the benevolent dictator model. That's what Ubuntu is doing, with Mark Shuttleworth.
Matt Mullenweg / Entrepreneur
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Open Source
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Web
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We can't wait until elections to fight for what we care about. We can't hope for a benevolent leader who may choose to listen to us. We need a network that lets the best ideas and leaders rise to the top through an open, inclusive democratic process.
Mark Pincus / Entrepreneur
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Inclusive
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I'm not questioning the monotheistic god. I think there's absolutely no evidence for the existence of such a god. When I say that, I mean I'm - part of that is that the idea that God could be all-powerful and also benevolent is on its face contradictory.
Barbara Ehrenreich / American Political Figure
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Questioning
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Look at the structure of the Gates Foundation and this idea that, rather than trying to solve these huge global problems through institutions with some kind of democracy and transparency baked into them, we're just going to outsource it to benevolent billionaires.
Naomi Klein / Author
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Democracy
Foundation
Gates
Solve
Structure
Transparency
Baked
Billionaires
Global
Outsource
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With a smartphone in tow and a playlist humming, a runner may miss the crunch of leaves underfoot, the enthusiastic cheers of benevolent strangers, or even her own breath. And, for many runners, leaving the mobile device at home is the most liberating part of the sport.
Mary Pilon /
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Crunch
Enthusiastic
Humming
Liberating
Mobile
Runners
Tow
Miss
Breath
Cheers
Device
Sport
Leaves
Strangers
Runner
Underfoot
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I took two or three months and I came up with a reason that I thought was enough and I went with it: if there is a God he's definitely not benevolent. We should mean less to him than ants. And if there is a God or there are gods they would value, more than anything, free will.
Tarsem Singh / Director
Ants
Benevolent
Free Will
More Than Anything
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It's very un-American to say nice things about elites. Elites are often terrible. It's not like we've ever had a perfect set of benevolent democratic elites ruling over our country. But the fact of the matter is that a representative system of democracy delegates power to elites.
Franklin Foer / Journalist
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Delegates
Democratic
Elites
Nice Things
Ruling
Terrible
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Un-American
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I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.
Julia Child / Chef
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Religion
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Female
Hate
Ideas
My Generation
Neighbor
Organized
Organized Religion
Thinking
Love God Always
Because
Love God Religion
Male
True
Own
Be True
Idea
Say
Generation
Her
Him
Maybe
Pick
Rather
See
Thy
To Love
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The truth is, it's a totalitarian dictatorship when you're making films. You are the boss. You can listen to other people, and it can be a benevolent dictatorship, but it's a dictatorship nonetheless. A lot of directors go past their first experience, that's what they've come away with.
Chiwetel Ejiofor / Actor
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Dictatorship
Truth Is
Nonetheless
Totalitarian
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We are a republic, very inefficient. If you want a really efficient form of government, you have a king or a dictator. And in the end, you hope it's a benevolent one. But then you could get things done. There's no lurching; there's no bumps. That's the cornerstone of checks and balances.
Rick Santelli / Editor
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Bumps
Checks
Dictator
Efficient
Republic
Balances
Checks And Balances
Cornerstone
In The End
Inefficient
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I expected social rank to be the determining factor in health, and in some ways that's true. But far more important is what sort of society that rank occurs in. Being low ranking in a benevolent troop is a hell of a lot better for your blood pressure than being low ranking in an aggressive troop.
Robert Sapolsky /
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Blood Pressure
Expected
Pressure
Determining
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Low
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For the most part, my characters don't talk to me. I like to lord over them like some kind of benevolent deity. And, for the most part, my characters go along with it. I write intense character sketches and long, play-like conversations between me and them, but they stay out of the book writing itself.
Sarah Maclean / Author
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Character Me Long
Conversations
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The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow.
Paul Zane Pilzer / Economist
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Belief
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Mistaken
Resources
Rich
Scarce
Theological
Wealth
Allow
Directly
Leads
Personal
Physical
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Truly
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Humans have an amazing capacity to believe in contradictory things. For example, to believe in an omnipotent and benevolent God but somehow excuse Him from all the suffering in the world. Or our ability to believe from the standpoint of law that humans are equal and have free will and from biology that humans are just organic machines.
Yuval Noah Harari /
God
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Capacity
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Equal
Example
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Standpoint
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God Believe World
Free
For Example
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