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If you’re going to quote me, do so with precision.
I’m sure that you know a great deal, perhaps more than I do, but to know is not necessarily to understand.”
you’re deliberately speaking in paradoxes to be annoying. A paradox arises only out of an ambiguity that deceives...
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A paradox arises only out of an ambiguity that deceives either unwi...
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You must have minimalism because every change, any change, has myriad side effects that can’t always be allowed for. If the change is too great and the side effects too many, then it becomes certain that the outcome will be far removed from anything you’ve planned and that it would be entirely unpredictable.”
People tended to avoid the humiliation of failure by joining the obviously winning side even against their own opinions.
The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.”
“Intuition! What’s that? Define it!” “Easily. Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading.”
“You don’t need schooling to be a philosopher. Just an active mind and experience with life.
They want to be treated as equals, they say, and so they do, but, given a chance, they have no desire to treat others as equals.”
“It’s all but impossible to change people’s minds and hearts, Raych. It’s enough to try and perhaps eliminate the worst of the injustices.”
“What good would swearing do if you couldn’t trust my word?
“As his parents, we have something to say—surely.” Hari sighed. “And I’m sure you’ve said it, Dors. And once you’ve said it, I’m sure he’ll do as he wishes.”
There was so much more in the past, so much less in the future, that the mind turned away from the looming shadow ahead to contemplate the safety of what had gone before.
