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“Well, he died. You don't get any older than that.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
“هبْني القدرة على أن أُبدع قواعد جديدة
[تُغيّر من أحكامِ طبيعتي [البشرية”
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[تُغيّر من أحكامِ طبيعتي [البشرية”
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“You have a peace about you. You have a wisdom. You have a way of living life that kicks my butt and pushes me around, and it beats me out of my idiocy and narrow-mindness. You, Addy, you, have shown me what life is all about”
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“The floor is solid metal in some places and metal grating in others. Everything smells like rotting garbage and fire.
"Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says.
"Wouldn't dream of it," I say.”
― Insurgent
"Don't say I never took you anywhere nice," Peter says.
"Wouldn't dream of it," I say.”
― Insurgent
“Mental patterns do not originate out of inorganic nature. They originate out of society, which originates out of inorganic nature. And, as anthropologists know so well, what a mind thinks is as dominated by biological patterns as social patterns are dominated by biological patterns and as biological patterns are dominated by inorganic patterns. There is no direct scientific connection between mind and matter. As the atomic scientist, Niels Bohr, said, "We are suspended in language." Our intellectual description of nature is always culturally derived.”
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