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Ted Chiang
“Contemplate the marvel that is existence, and rejoice that you are able to do so. I feel I have the right to tell you this because, as I am inscribing these words, I am doing the same.”
Ted Chiang, Exhalation

Stephen Batchelor
“To say “I don’t know” is not an admission of weakness or ignorance, but an act of truthfulness: an honest acceptance of the limits of the human condition when faced with “the great matter of birth and death.” This deep agnosticism is more than the refusal of conventional agnosticism to take a stand on whether God exists or whether the mind survives bodily death. It is the willingness to embrace the fundamental bewilderment of a finite, fallible creature as the basis for leading a life that no longer clings to the superficial consolations of certainty. By”
Stephen Batchelor, Confession of a Buddhist Atheist

“Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.”
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James Baldwin
“The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.”
James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Christina Soontornvat
“After a little while, he patted Pong's shoulder and smiled widely. "Thank you, my boy." "For what?" "For teaching me that desperate people deserve our compassion, not our judgement.”
Christina Soontornvat, A Wish in the Dark

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