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Jean-Paul Sartre
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
Jean-Paul Sartre

Yehuda Amichai
“To live is to build a ship and a harbor
at the same time. And to complete the harbor
long after the ship was drowned.”
Yehuda Amichai, Amen

“Machine learning is like money laundering for bias.”
Maciej Cegłowski

John Henry Newman
“The present is a text, and the past its interpretation.”
John Henry Newman

J.G. Ballard
“The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.”
J.G. Ballard, J.G. Ballard: Quotes: Does the Future Have a Future?

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