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Add the above health consequences up, and a proven link becomes easier to accept: the shorter your sleep, the shorter your life span.
“I am sorry to tell you this thing. You are a good man, and a pretty thing. But still, you are only a man. All you have to offer the world is your anger.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet introspection.”
― The Wise Man's Fear
― The Wise Man's Fear
“The only desire the Culture could not satisfy from within itself was one common to both the descendants of its original human stock and the machines they had (at however great a remove) brought into being: the urge not to feel useless.”
― Consider Phlebas
― Consider Phlebas
“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization—a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
― Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
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