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In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. Many races believe that it was created by some sort of god, though the Jatravartid people of Viltvodle Six believe
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“I think I understand, Socrates.” “Don’t you mean you understand you think?” he smiled. I”
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
― Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Maintaining one’s vigilance against biases is a chore—but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“if a design is good enough to evolve once, the same design principle is good enough to evolve twice, from different starting points, in different parts of the animal kingdom.”
― The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
― The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design
“In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.”
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
― Thinking, Fast and Slow
“Less than twenty years after the end of the Great War, the ‘war to end wars’ as it had come to be called at the nadir of hopes for its eventual conclusion, Europe was once again gripped by the fear of a new war, provoked by the actions and ambitions of war lords more aggressive than any known to the old world of the long nineteenth-century peace.”
― The First World War
― The First World War
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