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“It is done, then," Okaios said. "I supposed this was better than the alternative."
The sadness in his voice reminded Mera of an owner who has lost his prize pet. "No," she said. "A better alternative would have been no one dying."
"Then how would they learn?" Okaios asked.”
― The Lesson
The sadness in his voice reminded Mera of an owner who has lost his prize pet. "No," she said. "A better alternative would have been no one dying."
"Then how would they learn?" Okaios asked.”
― The Lesson
“Two of our opossums are missing.”
― The Women Men Don't See
― The Women Men Don't See
“I don’t have any control over what memories I get, when I get them. Except every single one of them is something I would have rather forgotten.
-- "Erase, Erase, Erase”
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-- "Erase, Erase, Erase”
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“He had mistaken his place in this story. The realization filled him with both terror and a little relief, the relief faint but present. He hoped the feeling would someday give him a measure of peace.”
― The Lesson
― The Lesson
“That contraption -- listen, Brother, they claim it thinks. I didn't believe it at first. Thought, implying rational principle, implying soul. Can the principle of a 'thinking machine' -- man-made -- be a rational soul? Bah! It seemed a thoroughly pagan notion at first. But do you know what?"
"Father?"
"Nothing could be that perverse without premeditation! It must think! It knows good and evil, I tell you, and it chose the latter.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
"Father?"
"Nothing could be that perverse without premeditation! It must think! It knows good and evil, I tell you, and it chose the latter.”
― A Canticle for Leibowitz
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