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    Ajay Agrawal
    “Value versus Cost Economists tend to focus on cost, and, as economists, we are as guilty of that as anyone. The entire premise of our first book, Prediction Machines, was that AI advances were going to dramatically reduce the cost of prediction, leading to a scale-up of its use. However, while that book suggested that the initial uses of AI would be where prediction was already occurring, either explicitly in, say, forecasting sales or the weather, or implicitly in classifying photos and language, we were mindful that the real opportunity would be the new applications and uses that were enabled when prediction costs fell low enough.”
    ― Ajay Agrawal, Power and Prediction: The Disruptive Economics of Artificial Intelligence
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    Dean Mafako
    “They remained imprisoned in the CICU, kept alive in physicality by mechanical devices and medicinal support, inexorably suffering. I revered their resiliency, though I struggled to understand whether they were truly resilient or if this was a descriptive term I used to assure myself that what we were doing was just. Could they merely represent physical beings at this point, molecular derivatives of carbon and water, void of souls that had moved on months prior once the universe had delivered their inevitable fate, simply kept alive by us physicians, who ourselves clutched desperately to the most favored of our prehistoric binary measures of success: life?”
    ― DEAN MAFAKO, M.D., Burned Out
    tags: action, burnout, children-s-hospital, drama, healthcare, humour, icu-setting, relationships, stress, trauma
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    “The only way I knew how to live the best day ever was on an expedition.”
    ― Hendri Coetzee
    tags: dare-to-dream, determination, difficulty, explorer, grit, hope, inspiring, life-goals, travel
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    A.R. Merrydew
    “Steve shook his head in amazement. ‘If that GOD person hadn’t left that case, we wouldn’t have any of this.’
         Thomas agreed. ‘Personally, I can’t praise him enough.’     ”
    ― A.R. Merrydew, Our Blue Orange
    tags: ai, androids, colonies, fantasy, fast-paced, fear, future, love, romance, weapons
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    Maurice Sendak
    “May I ask what you have in your black leather bag with gold buckles?"
    "Everything." They were climbing a narrow staircase. Rhoda stopped to look when Jennie opened her bag.
    "You do have everything."
    "I have even more," Jennie said modestly. "Two windows that I left at home.”
    ― Maurice Sendak, Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to Life
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    Hilary Mantel
    “Whereas we bless an old soldier and give him alms, pitying his blind or limbless state, we do not make heroes of women mangled in the struggle to give birth.”
    ― Hilary Mantel, The Mirror & the Light
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    Frances Hodgson Burnett
    “Well, it is. One of her 'pretends' is that she is a princess. She plays it all the time—even in school. She says it makes her learn her lessons better. She wants Ermengarde to be one, too, but Ermengarde says she is too fat.”
    ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess
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    Chaim Potok
    “Had something inarticulate been handed down from generation to generation that came to life in each individual at a time most appropriate to him?”
    ― Chaim Potok, My Name Is Asher Lev
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    Émile Zola
    “Hélène slowly surveyed the room. In this respectable society, amongst these apparently decent middle-class people, were there none but faithless wives? With her strict provincial morality, she was amazed at the licensed promiscuity of Parisian life.”
    ― Émile Zola, Une page d'amour
    tags: adultery, morality, paris
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    Diane Setterfield
    “But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.”
    ― Diane Setterfield, The Thirteenth Tale
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    “Around the outside of the room other beautiful women wearing little or nothing at all flitted between the infatuated, intoxicated men, sometimes luring them away for a private dance. The men would follow obediently, weighed down by lust and credit cards.”
    ― R.D. Ronald, The Zombie Room
    tags: descriptive-prose, lust, strippers
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    Susan Rowland
    “Jamie’s eyes gleamed. “God forgive me, I want there to be a murderer after the Falconer family so we in the College feel less to blame.”
    ― Susan Rowland, Murder on Family Grounds
    tags: action, drama, fiction, fiction-novel, fiction-writing, murder-mystery, mystery, noir, noir-mystery
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    Raz Mihal
    “Without divine love, there would be no evolution, no knowledge; it is the source of all that exists.”
    ― Raz Mihal, Just Love Her
    tags: divinesource, evolutionthroughlove, loveisknowledge
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    Carol Strickland
    “Doubtless Princess Juliana intended for me to overhear her comment on seeing Theodora in wedding regalia. “She’s like wisteria: beautiful in a vulgarly decorative way, cloyingly scented and an unstoppable climber.” Her eyes met mine and she made a motion as if scribbling in the air, daring me to write down her words.”
    ― Carol Strickland, The Eagle and the Swan
    tags: ancient, burlesque, conflict, determination, disputes, emperor, heart, historical, historical-romance, power-struggle
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    Sheridan Brown
    “Mr. Pugh turned bright red. His cheeks puffed up like the galls of shad from the nearby river. His green- monster eyes rolled around his face, and he pounded both fists down on the table, and through grinding teeth and snorting gasps hollered, “INDEED NOT, MISS KNAPP! Slaves are not allowed to read and write. We have you here with good and steady pay to instruct our children and nothing else. Going near that boy, or any other slave, with chalk or book learnin’ is strictly forbidden! Do you understand me?”
    ― Sheridan Brown, The Viola Factor
    tags: american-civil-war, division, family-ties, game-changer, growth, isolation, justice, mother, trauma, virginia
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    Jack London
    “His muscles had wasted away to knotty strings, and the flesh pads had disappeared, so that each rib and every bone in his frame were outlined cleanly through the loose hide that was wrinkled in folds of emptiness. It was heartbreaking, only Buck's heart was unbreakable. The man in the red sweater had proved that.”
    ― Jack London, The Call of the Wild
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    C. Toni Graham
    “Remember to celebrate the small accomplishments along your journey because they will provide the support needed when the road gets rocky. ”
    ― C. Toni Graham
    tags: attitude, choice, education, goodness, inspiration, inspiring, life, motivation, nonfiction, uplifting
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    Dashiell Hammett
    “I couldn't be fonder of you if you were my own son. But, well, if you lose a son, its possible to get another. There's only one Maltese Falcon.”
    ― Dashiell Hammett, The Maltese Falcon
    tags: humour
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    Greg Mortenson
    “Once you educate the boys, they tend to leave the villages and go search for work in the cities, but the girls stay home, become leaders in the community, and pass on what they’ve learned. If you really want to change a culture, to empower women, improve basic hygiene and health care, and fight high rates of infant mortality, the answer is to educate girls.”
    ― Greg Mortenson, Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace ... One School at a Time
    tags: community, education
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    Terry Pratchett
    “A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, The Truth: Stage Adaptation
    tags: lies, rumors, truth
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    Robert T. Kiyosaki
    “أن اغلب الناس يبغون من كل من في الأرض أن يتغيروا إلا انفسهم، وانه من الأيسر لك أن تتغير من نفسك عن ان تغير أحدا.”
    ― Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
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