"If you build a snazzy alife sim ... you'd be a kind of bridging `first cause', and might even have the power to intervene in their lives - even obliterate their entire experienced cosmos - but that wouldn't make you a god in any interesting sense. Gods are ontologically distinct from creatures, or they're not worth the paper they're written on."

-- Damien Broderick

#Interesting Quotes #Cosmos Quotes #Paper Quotes

“I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.”

Source : "Raha Moharrak: First Saudi woman to conquer Everest and break taboos" by Kellie Morgan, www.cnn.com. August 13, 2013.
“A purpose, an intention, a design, strikes everywhere even the careless, the most stupid thinker.”
“We can only change the world if we have a heart for the world and deliver the message for the world. We can only change the world if we evangelize the world.”
“Elite fundamentalism has always going to be involved with a certain set of conservative interests, but certainly not exclusively Republican.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“The man whose purse is empty can cheerfully sing before the robber.”
“Where I come from, if you see your family and friends' civil rights being taken away, you speak up and do everything you can to keep that from happening!”
“I watched her do speeches, but the only footage we could find of [princess] Margaret was archive footage, which was of her public presentation of herself.”
“Identity is something that you are constantly earning.”

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