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Education is no substitute for intelligence. That elusive quality is defined only in part by puzzle-solving ability. It is in the creation of new puzzles reflecting what your senses report that you round out the definition. —MENTAT TEXT ONE
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“The sociologist Elise Boulding diagnosed the problem of our times as “temporal exhaustion”: “If one is mentally out of breath all the time from dealing with the present, there is no energy left for imaging the future.”
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
― The Clock Of The Long Now: Time and Responsibility
“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory but progress.”
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“We are as gods and might as well get good at it.”
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“Why is it so hard to articulate love yet so easy to express disappointment?”
― The Descendants
― The Descendants
“One of the best protections against disappointment is to have a lot going on.”
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