"Our minds must meditate on some object. According to what he thinks, a man can create an atmosphere of radiance, exuberance, buoyancy; and this brings joy. Or he can carry gloom with him. It is a matter of the habit of thought. We must build up our own life by our thoughts. There are many ways by which we can do this. Art, music, even manual work, all can bring ripening to the soul."

-- Swami Paramananda

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“Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiquÃ©s assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.32, Head of Zeus
“They [women] can use their abilities to support each other, even as they develop more effective and appropriate ways of dealing with power.... Women do not need to diminish other women[they] need the power to advance their own development, but they do not "need" the power to limit the development of others.”
“Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!" shouted Aslan joyously. "Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.”
“Poverty is a very complicated issue, but feeding a child isn't.”
“Of course, the way writers think about those things is almost certain to be affected by their own cultural background, and it would be hard to deny that, for whatever reasons, a lot of SF writers come from Anglo or European backgrounds.”
“Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed.”
“I love a man who has lived a full life and lived on the edge.”
“We owe a lot to the Internet, for introducing people to technology and virtual space and what not.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de

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