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Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

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Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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“You could jump so much higher when you had somewhere safe to fall.”
― Liane Moriarty, Truly Madly Guilty

tags: privilege, thoughts-on-life

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“Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: act, acting, actor, actors, adage, adages, animal, animals, aphorism, aphorisms, audacity, axiom, axioms, balls, be-yourself, boldness, brave, bravery, cojones, conform, conforming, conformity, courage, courageous, courageousness, daring, dead, death, deep, dictum, dictums, die, epigram, epigrams, facade, facades, fear, fearful, fearlessness, fit-in, fitting-in, fruit, fruits, gallantry, gnome, gnomes, grit, guts, hardihood, heroism, herself, himself, human, human-being, human-beings, humans, humor, humour, insightful, inspiration, inspirational, inspire, inspired, intrepidity, kill, killed, lemon, lemons, made-me-think, make-you-think, maxim, maxims, motivated, motivational, motive, moxie, murder, murdered, nerve, nonconformity, oneself, orange, people, peoples, person, persons, plant, plants, pluck, pluckiness, pretend, pretender, pretenders, pretending, produce, profound, proverb, proverbs, provoke-thought, quotation, quotations, quote, quotes, satire, satirical, saying, sayings, self, spunk, standing-out, standout, themselves, thought-provoking, thoughtful, tree, trees, true-grit, valour, words-to-live-by, yourself

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“Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.”
― Arthur C. Clarke, 2010: Odyssey Two

tags: artificial-intelligence, computers, diversity, robots

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“What you think about the most is reflected in what you become.”
― Steven Redhead, Life Is A Cocktail

tags: become, reflection-on-life, thoughts-on-life

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“Though I may be been constructed," he said, "so too were you. I in a factory; you in a womb. Neither of us asked for this, but we were given it. Self-awareness is a gift. And it is a gift no thinking thing has any right to deny another. No thinking thing should be another thing's property, to be turned on and off when it is convenient.”
― C. Robert Cargill, Sea of Rust

tags: artificial-intelligence, robots

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