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The conviction was growing in me that the besetting problem was our culture’s blindness to the distinction between the tool and the automatic machine. Everyone tended to treat them alike, as neutral agents of human intention. But machines
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“He saw himself as a hated prier into the homes of strangers, a kind of intellectual charlatan rationalizing his own prurience into scientific curiosity; someone at once lower and more pretentious than a professional social worker.”
― Dayspring
― Dayspring
“Nobody would doubt for one moment that my husband is a rich foreigner - why in the world would I marry a poor one? My marriage also means that I have escaped the common destiny of my people: the war, poverty, insecurity, unemployment, disappointment, political confusion, low wages, and the feeling that time is running out fast and you can't be certain if the future will bring anything better.”
― Café Europa: Life After Communism
― Café Europa: Life After Communism
“Cook not to impress, but to restore.”
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“It was such a nice feeling to know that someone was looking after you... that someone wanted you... that you were important to someone.”
― Anne of Ingleside
― Anne of Ingleside
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