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The downed aviator quickly became the object of an enormous enemy effort to capture him and often to torture and kill him. Why? Because the aviator is capable of inflicting a disproportionate amount of damage on that enemy, far more than
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“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
― Hogfather
― Hogfather
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.”
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“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― The God of Small Things
― The God of Small Things
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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“When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of the movie theaters, the slope of a shoulder, the angle of a hip. Looking at them sideways, I examine them in different lights. My love for them is visual: that is the part of them I would like to possess. Don’t move, I think. Stay like that, let me have that.”
― Cat’s Eye
― Cat’s Eye
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