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“There’s a theory that if we don’t have the right words in our vocabularies, we can’t even see the things that are right in front of our faces. If”
― Paolo Bacigalupi, The Water Knife

“You can’t count a croissant. Mostly air.”
― Robert Galbraith, Troubled Blood

“I know about a lot of things, but only a little in each regard.”
― Becky Chambers, A Psalm for the Wild-Built

“Cicero cites the examples of Stilpo and Socrates: “It was said that Stilpo was drunken and Socrates was dull, and that both were given to sensual indulgence. But these natural faults they uprooted and wholly overcame by will, desire, and training (voluntate, studio, disciplina).”23 If we believed that everything were merely a product of fate or disposition, Cicero reasons, no one would be accountable for anything and therefore there could be no justice. In today’s terms, we’d all just be algorithms. Furthermore, we’d have no reason to try to make ourselves better or different from our natural inclinations.”
― Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy