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What was worse, being crazy or being evil?
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Every community has a need that is cannot meet in itself. The more they say they do not need us, the harder we must try to become what they need most.
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Hernan always says that a perfect moment of beauty can last forever. But maybe some moments are so ugly that they never end, either. All you can do is be patient with yourself.
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.
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You know... no matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you're not. But if you're clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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Loose ends are cool... Loose ends mean that you are still living your life. The person who dies with the most loose ends wins.
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The two of them sipped coffee and shook their heads, trapped in recursively horrible memories.
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Greatest natural disaster in America’s history. The storm’s supermassive fetch, hurling the already-swollen ocean onto land. High winds and twenty inches of rain shredding Capitol Hill and Foggy Bottom. The President in a secure location.
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He found some dignity in the back pocket of his newly acquired pants and walked up into the main apartment, only tripping once. Or twice.
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Believe me, there’s nothing worse than being both immortal and intelligent. Imagine the boredom! Plus you start to ask questions, and the worst thing about questions is that sometimes, they have answers.
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At last they were on top of the tree, which swayed a little in the wind. Tommington was not following them. Patricia looked around twice in all directions before she saw a round fur shape scampering on the ground nearby. “Stupid cat!” she shouted. “Stupid cat! You can’t get us!”
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I don't actually think that ethics are derived from principles. At all." Patricia scooted a little closer again and touched his arm with a few cool fingertips. "I think that the most basic thing of ethics is being aware of how your actions affect others, and having an awareness of what they want and how they feel. And that's always going to depend on who you're dealing with.
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Your friend would control nature," said the Tree, rustling through each syllable one by one. "A witch must serve nature.
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No matter what you do, people are going to expect you to be someone you’re not. But if you’re clever and lucky and work your butt off, then you get to be surrounded by people who expect you to be the person you wish you were.
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Boredom is the mind’s scar tissue.
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But the real point is, how do you ever know your own emotions are spontaneous and genuine, and not just a programmed set of responses?
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This time, I’m just going to do it. I’m going to cure him. Because why not? It would be so easy.
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The man who can see the future has a date with the woman who can see many possible futures.
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy.
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Magic was always bound to claim her in the end, in retrospect, but love was the most susceptible to random failure of all human enterprises.
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I think that technology is much more mysterious to the people using it than, say, the automobile was. This isn't an original observation, but a lot of the smart devices people rely on now really do feel like magic to a lot of us.
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Loneliness was a full-body sensation, an anti-exhilaration, from his core outward.
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The not-understanding was worse than anything else, it was like a mystery and a wound that couldn't heal and an unforgivable failure.
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The paper about gravity tunneling
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