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A person was like a city. You couldn’t let a few less desirable parts put you off the whole. There may be bits you don’t like, a few dodgy side streets and suburbs, but the good stuff makes it worthwhile.
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“Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human. Care more, become more human.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“And the sun comes out, like a kiss on the cheek from God.”
― The Girl With All the Gifts
― The Girl With All the Gifts
“Ethan was partaking in that greatest of white-collar lies, “working from home,” and not feeling at all bad about it. He”
― A Better World
― A Better World
“As well as religion, human history is full of depressing things like colonisation, disease, racism, sexism, homophobia, class snobbery, environmental destruction, slavery, totalitarianism, military dictatorships, inventions of things which they have no idea how to handle (the atomic bomb, the Internet, the semi-colon), the victimisation of clever people, the worshipping of idiotic people, boredom, despair, periodic collapses, and catastrophes within the psychic landscape.”
― The Humans
― The Humans
“He believed that technological progress was a disease in human society. The explosive development of technology was analogous to the growth of cancer cells, and the results would be identical: the exhaustion of all sources of nourishment, the destruction of organs, and the final death of the host body. He advocated abolishing crude technologies such as fossil fuels and nuclear energy and keeping gentler technologies such as solar power and small-scale hydroelectric power. He believed in the gradual de-urbanization of modern metropolises by distributing the population more evenly in self-sufficient small towns and villages. Relying on the gentler technologies, he would build a new agricultural society.”
― The Three-Body Problem
― The Three-Body Problem
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