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Yet in a turbulent world, there’s another set of cognitive skills that might matter more: the ability to rethink and unlearn.
“It killed humans, therefore it was a weapon. But radiation killed humans, and a medical X-ray machine wasn’t intended as a weapon. Holden was starting to feel like they were all monkeys playing with a microwave. Push a button, a light comes on inside, so it’s a light. Push a different button and stick your hand inside, it burns you, so it’s a weapon. Learn to open and close the door, it’s a place to hide things. Never grasping what it actually did, and maybe not even having the framework necessary to figure it out. No monkey ever reheated a frozen burrito.”
― Abaddon's Gate
― Abaddon's Gate
“No rest for the wicked, no peace for the good.”
― Abaddon's Gate
― Abaddon's Gate
“Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas. It's attractive because it's simple, it's direct, it's almost always available as an option. When you can't think of a good rebuttal for your opponent's argument, you can always punch them in the face.”
― Abaddon’s Gate
― Abaddon’s Gate
“You can tell you’ve found a really interesting question when nobody wants you to answer it.”
― Nemesis Games
― Nemesis Games
“Here’s the thing,” Amos said. “If you did go in there, you might feel like you had to do something. And then I might feel like I had to do something. And then we’d all be doing things, and we’d all wind up having a worse day, just in general.”
― Nemesis Games
― Nemesis Games
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