Our genesis sounds more like a bad joke than the actual founding of a nation: One stormy night centuries ago, a pirate, a rabbi, and a Santero escaped some battle together and watched in awe as the island of San Madrigal arose from the
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“You will see every adversity as an injustice, every challenge as a failure, every inconvenience as a personal slight, every disagreement as a betrayal.”
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
― The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
“But he’s thick and terribly old, maybe in his forties.”
― Red Rising
― Red Rising
“Even an ultimate artificial general intelligence, possessing all the knowledge of humanity, won’t have a conscience or a soul. A person without a conscience is a sociopath. Sociopaths are incapable of love.”
― The Forest of Lost Souls
― The Forest of Lost Souls
“Another and necessary kind of courage, which he has come to understand by reading adventure novels, is to know yourself for what you really are, accept what that is, and correct those habits and attitudes that need to be corrected. You can’t be a hero if you run away from either the enemy or the truth of yourself.”
― The Forest of Lost Souls
― The Forest of Lost Souls
“We even broke up the sorting job into batches and shipped it off to commercial grids—Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure.”
― Quantum Radio
― Quantum Radio
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