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“Life is growth, and the more we travel, the more truth we can understand. Understanding the things that surround us is the best preparation to understand the things that lie beyond.”
― Hypatia

tags: food-for-thought

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“People who believe in the hi-tech Ark should not be put in charge of the global ecology, for the same reason that people who believe in a heavenly afterlife should not be given nuclear weapons.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

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“No objective person could personally observe existing conditions in the West Bank and dispute these statements.”
― Jimmy Carter, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid

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“Those enigmas drew me into new territories, including the nature of rumor, folk wisdom, and conspiratorial thinking; the contrast between rationality within an individual and in a community; and the distinction between two modes of believing: the reality mindset and the mythology mindset.”
― Steven Pinker, Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters

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“We aren't born with a ready-made conscience. As we pass through life, we hurt people and people hurt us, we act compassionately and others show compassion to us. if we pay attention, our moral sensitivity sharpens and these experiences become a source of valuable ethical knowledge about what is good, what is right and who I really am.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow

tags: who-i-really-am

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