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What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?


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It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.

It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.



If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.



After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.

After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.



To go faster you must slow down.

To go faster you must slow down.



There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.



If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.

If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.



What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.



How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?



Let's all be different same as me.

Let's all be different same as me.



You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.

You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.





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Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue.



When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.



Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.

Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.



I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.

I want the following word: splendor, splendor is fruit in all its succulence, fruit without sadness. I want vast distances. My savage intuition of myself.



Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.



Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.



Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.

Pretending is not just play. Pretending is imagined possibility. Pretending, or acting, is a very valuable life skill and we do it all the time.



Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.

Luxury to me is not about buying expensive things; it's about living in a way where you appreciate things.



While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.

While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.




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