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“Staring at danger may not be pleasant – but closing your eyes will not make the danger go away, and with closed eyes you will surely be destroyed by it.”
― Isaac Asimov, Catastrophes!

tags: catastrophe, danger, foresight, risk

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“Life is suffering. It is hard. The world is cursed. But still, you find reasons to keep living.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

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“It is the same logic reversal we saw earlier with the value of what we don’t know; everybody knows that you need more prevention than treatment, but few reward acts of prevention.”
― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

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“The real problem of humanity is the following: We have Paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions and godlike technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.”
― Edward O. Wilson

tags: crisis, emotions, flaws, human-beings, humanity, humans, institutions, people, problems, technology

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“The essential thing was to save the greatest possible number of persons from dying and being doomed to unending separation. And to do this there was only one resource: to fight the plague. There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

tags: altruism, morality

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