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"DnF. Unfortunately this felt like fan fiction — the writing was really clunky and there’s no way in to caring for the characters." Dec 20, 2025 10:07AM

 
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Thich Nhat Hanh
“In Vietnam, we staged nonviolent action and brought down a government—not with guns or bullets. We must rely on ourselves and organize ourselves so that we can perform the peace work of transformation and healing within our family, group, and community. Then such action can be taken. When the whole world focuses its attention on you, that action is very powerful. If Gandhi was able to succeed, you will also succeed.”
Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Begins Here: Palestinians and Israelis Listening to Each Other

Benjamín Labatut
“We can pull atoms apart, peer back at the first light and predict the end of the universe with just a handful of equations, squiggly lines and arcane symbols that normal people cannot fathom, even though they hold sway over their lives. But it's not just regular folks; even scientists no longer comprehend the world. Take quantum mechanics, the crown jewel of our species, the most accurate, far-ranging and beautiful of all our physical theories. It lies behind the supremacy of our smartphones, behind the Internet, behind the coming promise of godlike computing power. It has completely reshaped our world. We know how to use it, it works as if by some strange miracle, and yet there is not a human soul, alive or dead, who actually gets it. The mind cannot come to grips with its paradoxes and contradictions. It's as if the theory had fallen to earth from another planet, and we simply scamper around it like apes, toying and playing with it, but with no true understanding.”
Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

Pam Grossman
“How do you know if it is spirit or nature who answers? Maybe there is no difference at all. Maybe grace is green.”
Pam Grossman, Waking the Witch: Reflections on Women, Magic, and Power

Robert Graves
“But, after all, what is a scholar? One who may not break bounds under pain of expulsion from the academy of which he is a member.”
Robert Graves, The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth

Benjamín Labatut
“He had also gone through a bad divorce, become estranged from his only daughter and been diagnosed with skin cancer, but he insisted that all of that, however painful, was secondary to the sudden realization that it was mathematics—not nuclear weapons, computers, biological warfare or our climate Armageddon—which was changing our world to the point where, in a couple of decades at most, we would simply not be able to grasp what being human really meant.”
Benjamín Labatut, When We Cease to Understand the World

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