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#1

“Something must have gone awry with the programming. I have no idea where or when we are.”
― Steven Decker, The Balance of Time

tags: action, adventure, drama, fiction, future, literary-fiction, metaphysical, past, sci-fi, science

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#2

“Sermons frequently refer to the apostles of Christ as poor, uneducated tradesmen. But three of the Twelve, Matthew, John, and Peter, wrote some of the world’s all-time best-selling literature. The apostles were more than just literate; Jesus called them scribes “who [had] been trained for the kingdom of heaven . . . like a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure what is new and what is old” (Matt 13:52). It would be surprising if the disciples ignored this and failed to take notes during Jesus’ ministry.”
― James Allen Moseley, Biographies of Jesus' Apostles: Ambassadors in Chains

tags: apostles, biography, disciples, freedom, historical, hope, joy, love, ministry, sermons

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#3

“Thierry was one. An award winning documentary film producer based in Paris. Her curiosity was not driven so much by his fame or talent, with which he was generously endowed on both counts, but by his elusiveness. He had a reputation for chasing the most complicated and dangerous assignments that others considered too risky. He had money for all occasions. He had a reputation among men as a man with a reputation among women.”
― John Payton Foden, Magenta

tags: bad, dark, death, devastation, evil, good, harrowing, iolence, murder, sad

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#4

“There are four steps to gaining ownership and intentionality over your personal identity and beliefs: Determining your objective function What is the purpose of my life? Determining your ideological tree How do I best fulfill that purpose? Determining your personal identity Who do I want to be? Determining your public identity How do I want others to think of me?”
― Malcolm Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Life: A Guide to Creating Your Own Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions

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#5

“Yamamoto was considered, both in Japan and the United States, as intelligent, capable, aggressive, and dangerous. Motivated by his skill as a poker player and casino gambler, he was continually calculating odds on an endless variety of options. He played bridge and chess better than most good players. Like most powerful leaders he was articulate and persuasive, and once in a position of power he pushed his agenda relentlessly. Whether he would push his odds successfully in the Pacific remained to be seen.”
― Dale A. Jenkins, Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific War from Pearl Harbor to Midway

tags: courageous, death, documents, facts, lies, life, midway, miscommunication, pearl-harbour, war

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#6

“A culture that has a moral compass which always points toward the elite’s conception of good—or a society’s default conceptions of “good”—has a broken moral compass. Compasses have value because they point toward a single magnetic North, not a moving position.”
― Simone Collins, The Pragmatist’s Guide to Crafting Religion: A playbook for sculpting cultures that overcome demographic collapse & facilitate long-term human flourishing

tags: agnosticism, atheism, cultural-reactor, fortifying, ideas, learning, life, mistakes, rebuilding, traditional-cultures

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#7

“We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
― Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from the Birmingham Jail

tags: freedom, opression

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#8

“most of my wandering in the desert i've done alone. not so much from choice as from necessity - i generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go. i find that in contemplating the natural world my pleasure is greater if there are not too many others contemplating it with me, at the same time.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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#9

“I have to force myself even to move my eyeballs. It's so easy just to stare.”
― Flora Rheta Schreiber, Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

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#10

“This is another lesson from the transformative movements of the past: all of them understood that the process of shifting cultural values—though somewhat ephemeral and difficult to quantify—was central to their work. And so they dreamed in public, showed humanity a better version of itself, modeled different values in their own behavior, and in the process liberated the political imagination and rapidly altered the sense of what was possible.”
― Naomi Klein, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

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#11

“God have mercy on a sinner like me and enable me to know and believe in Jesus Christ. For I understand that if the righteousness of Christ was not available or if I didn’t have faith in that righteousness, then I would be utterly rejected from your presence. Lord, I’ve heard that you’re a merciful God and have ordained that your Son, Jesus Christ, should be the Savior of the world.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress: A Readable Modern-Day Version of John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress

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#12

“Force a hand, and it will fight you. But convince and mind to think as you want it to think, an you have an ally”
― Dan Brown, Digital Fortress

tags: inspirational

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#13

“We’re all going a little craz—” He stopped; he couldn’t possibly say anything worse. “I mean …” “Just shut it,” Newt said. “I know something’s started in my head. I don’t feel right. But you don’t need to worry your buggin’ panties off.”
― James Dashner, The Death Cure

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#14

“For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story.”
― Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

tags: book, story-telling, yoel-goldenberg

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#15

“Meu amo não podia compreender como toda essa raça de patrícios era tão malevolente e tão terrível.”
― Jonathan Swift, Viagens de Gulliver

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#16

“In keeping with the American effort to reconcile with Japan, all of them, including those serving life sentences, would soon be paroled. It appears that even Sueharu Kitamura, “the Quack,” was set free, in spite of his death sentence. By 1958, every war criminal who had not been executed would be free, and on December 30 of that year, all would be granted amnesty. Sugamo would be torn down, and the epic ordeals of POWs in Japan would fade from the world’s memory.”
― Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

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#17

“One common problem with AI is it will lack in common sense and creative thinking. These two fields are not nearly on the table if we are speaking about AGI. This is why I personally think that humans and AI need to handle together the global decision-making process.”
― Zoltan Andrejkovics, Together: AI and Human. On The Same Side.

tags: ai, artificial-intelligence, decision-making, decisions

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#18

“Of those men who have overturned the liberties of republics the greatest number have begun their career, by paying an obsequious court to the people; commencing Demagogues, and ending Tyrants.”
― Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers

tags: federalist-no-1

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