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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values

by Sam Harris

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“One swallow is a coincidence, but two swallows make summer.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

tags: truths

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“Strange and harrowing must be his story; frightful the storm which embraced the gallant vessel on its course, and wrecked it--thus!”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: fate

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“I have eaten several priests. They sit on the stomach like duck eggs.”
― John Champlin Gardner Jr., Grendel

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“It remains an astonishing, disturbing fact that in America - a nation where nearly every new drug is subjected to rigorous scrutiny as a potential carcinogen, and even the bare hint of a substance's link to cancer ignites a firestorm of public hysteria and media anxiety - one of the most potent and common carcinogens known to humans can be freely bought and sold at every corner store for a few dollars.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

tags: truths

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“I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said.
I know you didn't.
I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of.
I know it. There's hard lessons in this world.
What's the hardest?
I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.
Yessir.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Cities of the Plain

tags: finality, lessons, loss, past

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