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“He thought of Mrs Wilson, of her daily kindnesses, of how she had corrected and encouraged him, of the small things she had said and done and had refused to do and say and what she must have known, the things which, when added up, amounted to a life.”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

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“Our silver van was like a magic carriage. Every time I got into it, it carried me to a place I'd never been before. At that moment, we were without a doubt the greatest travelers in the world. And I was the world's greatest traveling cat.”
― Hiro Arikawa, Nana Du Ký

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“Sometimes I worry you'll all realise I'm ordinary," said the boy.
"Love doesn't need you to be extraordinary." said the mole.”
― Charlie Mackesy, The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

tags: extraordinary, friendship, love, ordinary

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“Tell me, Satoru. What's out there beyond this field? A lot of wonderful things, I'm thinking. I wonder if I'll be able to go on a trip with you again.

Satoru grins, and picks me up, so I can see the far-off-horizon from his eye level.

Ah - we saw so many things, didn't we?”
― Hiro Arikawa, Nana Du Ký

tags: animals, cats, friendship, japan, love, pets

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“Having better prediction raises the value of judgment. After all, it doesn’t help to know the likelihood of rain if you don’t know how much you like staying dry or how much you hate carrying an umbrella. Prediction machines don’t provide judgment. Only humans do, because only humans can express the relative rewards from taking different actions. As AI takes over prediction, humans will do less of the combined prediction-judgment routine of decision making and focus more on the judgment role alone.”
― Ajay Agrawal, Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence

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