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“Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”
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“It ain't the parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand.”
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“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
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“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.”
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The Short Story Club
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The purpose of this group is to read and discuss one short story a week. For the the first couple of years, we read from specific anthologies, but fro ...more
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