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#1

“People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Wave in the Mind: Talks and Essays on the Writer, the Reader and the Imagination

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#2

“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist; a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas

tags: art, artists, evil, happiness, pain

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#3

“To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: ambiguity, certainty, humility, knowledge, policy

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#4

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: epistemology, future, philosophy

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#5

“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: equality, humanity, imagination, loneliness, poetry, solipsism, world

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#6

“Nobody who says, ‘I told you so’ has ever been, or will ever be, a hero.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin

tags: adventure, bravery, courage, curiousity, freedom, heroism, wonder

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#7

“But it is one thing to read about dragons and another to meet them.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea

tags: dragons

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#8

“When action grows unprofitable, gather information; when information grows unprofitable, sleep.”
― Ursula K. LeGuin, The Left Hand of Darkness

tags: action, information, sleep

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#9

“Things don't have purposes, as if the universe were a machine, where every part has a useful function. What's the function of a galaxy? I don't know if our life has a purpose and I don't see that it matters. What does matter is that we're a part. Like a thread in a cloth or a grass-blade in a field. It is and we are. What we do is like wind blowing on the grass.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven

tags: purpose-of-life

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#10

“There is no such thing as "Just a cat.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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#11

“Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

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#12

“Remember to imagine and craft the worlds you cannot live without, just as you dismantle the ones you cannot live within.”
― Ruha Benjamin

tags: abolition, prefigurative

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#13

“Because those who monopolize resources monopolize imagination.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Imagination: A Manifesto

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#14

“Zeros and ones, if we are not careful, could deepen the divides between haves and have-nots, between the deserving and the undeserving – rusty value judgments embedded in shiny new systems.”
― Ruha Benjamin, Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

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#15

“It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

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#16

“When we think of coconuts or pigs, there are no coconuts or pigs in the brain.”
― Gregory Bateson, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity

tags: coconuts, cognition, correspondence, pigs, the-brain, truth

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#17

“Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: La musique, le cerveau et nous

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#18

“Perception is never purely in the present - it has to draw on experience of the past;(...).We all have detailed memories of how things have previously looked and sounded, and these memories are recalled and admixed with every new perception.”
― Oliver Sacks, Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain

tags: neuroscience

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#19

“The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.”
― Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

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