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“The English language has about 450,000 commonly used words, but more may be needed. What to you call someone who has lost a sibling or had a miscarriage? Or a gay person whose partner has died? Or an elderly person who has lost every friend and relative? So many heartaches can't be found in the dictionary.”
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“Treating other people as you would like to be treated. It is an ancient, universal ethical imperative. And it requires no supernatural beliefs.”
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“I told him he'd have a heart attack a year ago, but unfortunately he lived a year longer.”
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“If computers remain far worse than us at image recognition, a certain over-confident combination of man and machine can elsewhere take inaccuracy to a whole new level.”
Source : "Forget artificial intelligence. It's artificial idiocy we need to worry about" by Tom Chatfield, www.theguardian.com. January 6, 2014.
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“Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability Nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff.”
Source : Dossie Easton, Catherine A. Liszt (1997). “The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities”, Greenery Press (CA)
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“Paradoxically, it has turned out that game theory is more readily applied to biology than to the field of economic behavior for which it was originally designed”
Source : John Maynard Smith (1982). “Evolution and the Theory of Games”, p.7, Cambridge University Press
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“The last of the human freedoms is to choose one's attitudes.”
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“The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.”