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And then there’s little Margaret, or is it Joan? Somehow I can never really get the name straight. That little child off in the corner. That withdrawn child—the one who never gives anyone any trouble. And the little child wonders, “Am I
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“In the simplest terms, empires amassed extraordinary riches across space and time, through imposing a colonial world order, at great expense to everyone else.”
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
― Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
“The thing is, the deepest truths always sound a little trite. Because we all know them, and feel foolish being reminded.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“Ideals are dead things,” Kaladin said, “unless they have people behind them. Laws exist not for themselves, but for those they serve.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“You are normal,” Drehy said. “Or rather, nobody is normal. Normal doesn’t exist. So if we slavishly try to dress ourselves to imitate it, all we’re really doing is becoming a different kind of abnormal—a miserable kind.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
“nothing is easier to sell someone than the story they want to hear.”
― Wind and Truth
― Wind and Truth
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