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#1

“Casting a curious gaze down on planet Earth, extra-terrestrial beings could well be forgiven for assuming that we humans are programmed in every move we make, by a palm-sized, oblong, slab of glass. More perplexing than that, who on earth could convince them otherwise ?”
― Alex Morritt, Impromptu Scribe

tags: artificial-intelligence, artificial-life, artificiality, assume, assumed, assumption, assumptions, assumptions-quote, automaton, backward-step

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#2

“There is nothing that can happen TO you that can’t also happen FOR you…if you’ll let it.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: adversity, destiny, everything-happens-for-a-reason, faith, glass-half-full, good-attitude, life, positive-attitude, positive-thinking, positivity, trusting-your-journey

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#3

“Don't ignore the love you DO have in your life by focusing on the love you DON'T.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence

tags: being-single, blessings, contentment, finding-love, friendship, glass-half-full, loneliness, love, loving-people, loving-yourself, positive-thinking, relationships, single, single-life, single-woman, singleness, the-single-woman

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#4

“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr, A Tour Round My Garden

tags: complaints, glass-half-full, gratitude, misattributed-abraham-lincoln, optimism, perspective, pessimism, positive-thinking, roses, thorns

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#5

“What are your fees?" inquired Guyal cautiously. "I respond to three questions," stated the augur. "For twenty terces I phrase the answer in clear and actionable language; for ten I use the language of cant, which occasionally admits of ambiguity; for five, I speak a parable which you must interpret as you will; and for one terce, I babble in an unknown tongue.”
― Jack Vance, Tales of the Dying Earth

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#6

“If religions are diseases of the human psyche, as the philosopher Grintholde asserts, then religious wars must be reckoned the resultant sores and cankers infecting the aggregate corpus of the human race. Of all wars, these are the most detestable, since they are waged for no tangible gain, but only to impose a set of arbitrary credos upon another's mind.”
― Jack Vance, The Face

tags: jihad, religion

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#7

“Cease the bickering! I am indulging the exotic whims of a beautiful princess and must not be distracted.”
― Jack Vance

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#8

“We prostrate ourselves before the fish-god Yob, who seems as efficacious as any.”
― Jack Vance

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#9

“What exists is real; therefore it is tragic, since whatever lives must die. Only fantasy, the vapors rising from sheer nonsense, can now excite my laughter.”
― Jack Vance, The Green Pearl

tags: fantasy-literature

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#10

“All the suffering there is in this world arises from wishing our self to be happy. All the happiness there is in this world arises from wishing others to be happy.”
― Shantideva

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#11

“When I look at the human race all over the world I think there’s zero reason for humanity to survive. We’re destructive”
― Sylvia Nasar, A Beautiful Mind

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