Brendan Clancy

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“Whereas moral courage is the righting of wrongs, creative courage, in contrast, is the discovering of new forms, new symbols, new patterns on which a new society can be built.”
― Rollo May, The Courage to Create

tags: courage, creation, creative-courage, forms, patterns, symbols

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“People's behaviors are messages, not a diagnosis because I can no longer discern the world's version of insanity.”
― Shannon L. Alder

“we shall quickly find ourselves about as important to the algorithms as animals currently are to us.”
― Niall Ferguson, The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook

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“I am a necessary part of an important search to which there is no end.”
― Keith Haring

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“Deep understanding of causality sometimes requires the understanding of very large patterns and their abstract relationships and interactions, not just the understanding of microscopic objects interacting in microscopic time intervals.”
― Douglas R. Hofstadter, I Am a Strange Loop

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