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“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very sad, use morose. Language was invented for one reason, boys - to woo women - and, in that endeavor, laziness will not do. It also won’t do in your essays.”
― N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets Society

“I have fought for independence here, and freedom too. More and more I find they’re not at all the same thing.”
― Paula McLain, Circling the Sun

“We don’t sense mistakes coming, there’s this crucial unforeseen factor to them. So I found myself asking the question: what is the opposite of a mistake? And I realised there wasn’t a word, in fact, precisely because a mistake always arises from best intentions that go awry. You can’t set out to make a mistake. Mistakes happen – there’s nothing we can do about them.”
― William Boyd, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay

“A list of the thirteen types of photograph (plus an afterthought): Aide-memoire Reportage Work of art Topography Erotica/Pornography Advertisement Abstract image Literature Text Autobiography Compositional Functional illustration Snapshot”
― William Boyd, Sweet Caress: The Many Lives of Amory Clay

“understand, and understanding was something that we loved to do.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“every choice has its history, so many moments of our existence are shoved into a corner, waiting for an outlet, and in the end the outlet arrives.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“These themes are explored through fantasy figures such as wizards, giants and elves. At the same time, amongst the teachers and pupils at Hogwarts, there are very few people of colour and no clear explanation of why that might be. So a story that has so much to say about racism on an allegorical level at the same time depicts people of colour as marginal without exploring their marginalisation. Malorie”
― Nikesh Shukla, The Good Immigrant

“Learning is a profoundly important part of what makes us human. It is also something Good Old-Fashioned AI struggled with. The”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“In essence, this means neural networks can think using analogies, which is something that could never be said for classic AI.”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“Currently, education is stuck in the same Industrial Revolution paradigm it has been in for more than 100 years. In”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“Every year we save more bytes of data about ourselves than we have base pairs of DNA. Each time we enter cyberspace we”
― Luke Dormehl, Thinking Machines: The inside story of Artificial Intelligence and our race to build the future

“In other words, though they did not believe in God, He had nonetheless promised them Palestine.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“as demanded in the famous UN Security Council Resolution 242 very shortly after the war ended. As readers probably know, a Security Council resolution is more binding than a resolution by the General Assembly. And this was one of the few Security Council resolutions criticizing Israel that was not vetoed by the United States.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“The litmus test of any democracy is the level of tolerance it is willing to extend towards the minorities living in it. In this respect, Israel falls far short of being a true democracy.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Denying people the right of return to their homeland, and at the same time offering this right to others who have no connection to the land, is a model of undemocratic practice.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“And therefore we should acknowledge that the Oslo process was not a fair and equal pursuit of peace, but a compromise agreed to by a defeated, colonized people.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“because whereas religion asks us to believe in something, money asks us to believe that other people believe in something.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Still, if we combine all the victims of all these persecutions, it turns out that in these three centuries, the polytheistic Romans killed no more than a few thousand Christians.1 In contrast, over the course of the next 1,500 years, Christians slaughtered Christians by the millions to defend slightly different interpretations of the religion of love and compassion.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“However, only rarely do scientists dictate the scientific agenda.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“Zionism offered itself as the solution to anti-Semitism, but became the main reason for its continued presence.”
― Ilan Pappé, Ten Myths About Israel

“Some start boycotting halal meat on cruelty grounds, as though there are varying degrees of acceptable animal death they’ll withstand for the benefit of eating their burgers.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“It seems there is a belief among some white people that being accused of racism is far worse than actual racism.”
― Reni Eddo-Lodge, Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

“This at least hasn’t changed, the way men caress good cars.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale

“Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn?”
― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale