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Geschichten vom Herrn Keuner

by Bertolt Brecht

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Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run

by Paul McCartney

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The Killer Angels (The Civil War Trilogy, #2) by Michael Shaara

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He marches knowing that a letter has been prepared by Jefferson Davis, a letter which offers peace. It is to be placed on the desk of Abraham Lincoln the day after Lee has destroyed the Army of the Potomac somewhere north of Washington.

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“As Tolstoy writes, “If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life itself is destroyed.”14”
― Henry A. Kissinger, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

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“Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is gracious, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”62”
― Pope John Paul II, Catechism of the Catholic Church

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“St. Teresa of Jesus wonderfully expresses this trust: Let nothing trouble you / Let nothing frighten you Everything passes / God never changes Patience / Obtains all 2830 Whoever has God / Wants for nothing 1723 God alone is enough.52”
― Pope John Paul II, Catechism of the Catholic Church

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“In brief, models trained via machine learning allow humans to know new things (the models’ outputs) but not to understand how the discoveries were made (the models’ internal processes).”
― Henry A. Kissinger, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

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“But in counseling us and others that he was himself but a humble student both of humanity and of its latest and potentially final creation, he impressed upon us that the greatest danger posed by AI would be for us to declare too early, or too completely, that we understand it.”
― Henry A. Kissinger, Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

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