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Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore

by Emily Krempholtz (Goodreads Author)

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Theo of Golden

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Sherlock Holmes and the Giant Sumatran Rat (The Confidential Files of Dr. John H. Watson, #2)

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J.J.’s Quotes

“She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.”
― Jojo Moyes, The Giver of Stars

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“Notice that the story [of technical progress accelerating indefinitely] is not testable; we just have to wait around and see. If the predicted year of true AI's coming is false, too, another one can be forecast, a few decades into the future. AI in this sense is unfalsifiable and thus--according to the accepted rules of the scientific method--unscientific.”
― Erik J. Larson, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can’t Think the Way We Do

tags: artificial-intelligence, humor, mic-drop, science, unscientific

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“Edmund Burke argued that people who have never looked backward to their ancestors will not be able to look forward and plan for the future. People who look backward to see the heroism and the struggle that came before see themselves as debtors who owe something, who have some obligation to pay it forward.”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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“Nothing is quite so dangerous as a religious fanatic who thinks he’s doing the Lord’s will.”
― Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time: A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved Murder Cases of the Civil Rights Era

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“The universe is alive and connected, these moments tell us. There are dimensions of existence you never could have imagined before. Quantum particles inexplicably flip together, even though they are separated by vast differences of time and space. Somehow the world is alive and communicating with itself. There is some interconnecting animating force, and we are awash in that force, which we with our paltry vocabulary call love. The”
― David Brooks, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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