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I'm myself, not a label.
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To go faster you must slow down.
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Learning
Faster
Slow Down
Teaching
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Let's all be different same as me.
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Conformity
Different
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Christ, what an imagination I've got!
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Imagination
Christ
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"Pay him what was promised", said the caliph. "And put out his eyes."
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Cynical
Eye
Pay
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It's supposed to be automatic but actually you have to press this button.
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Technology
Buttons
Zanzibar
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I have always found fact infinitely more interesting than myths and falsehoods.
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Always More Than
Falsehoods
Infinitely
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Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said.
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Foundation
Rumor
Santa
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You have many years to live do things you will be proud to remember when you're old.
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Proud
Remember
Years
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First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines.
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Firsts
Machines
Use
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Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
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Excuse
Explaining
Trouble
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Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?
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Humans
Rational
Should
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What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?
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Humanity
Machines
Names
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Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work.
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People
Television
World
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If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.
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Evil
Humans
Phenomenon
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Love and joy are incredibly habit-forming; often a single exposure is enough to cause permanent addiction.
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Addiction
Causes
Joy
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If the evidence says you're wrong, you don't have the right theory. You change the theory, not the evidence.
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Evidence
Ifs
Theory
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to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
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Bullets
Faster
Helping
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We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.
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Casting
Should
Way
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After all, the rich get richer and the poor get children. Which is okay so long as lots of them starve in infancy.
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Children
Long
Rich
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UNFAIR :; Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage.
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Cheat
People
Unfair
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The real universe has a marvellous and unique quality, inasmuch as it and only it can take us completely by surprise.
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Quality
Marvellous
Surprise
Unique
Inasmuch
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There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.
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Change
Politics
Two
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It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it were on your side and not theirs.
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Sides
Would Be
Your Side
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People who hate in concrete terms are dangerous. People who manage to hate only in abstracts are the ones worth having for your friends.
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Dangerous
Hate
People
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For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of us a brand-new reason for paranoia.
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Data
Impact
Truth Is
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I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.
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New York
Home
Credit
Heaven
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On balance, I would say that anybody who reminds our lords and masters that the computerized society is fragile... has definitely done a service to the public at large.
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Balance
Fragile
Masters
Anybody
Computerized
Definitely
Large
Lords
Reminds
Service
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The same computers that make it impossible for you to cheat on your income tax can ensure that the blood of your group is in the ambulance that picks you up from a car smash.
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Car
Ambulance
Blood
Cheat
Impossible
Income
Income Tax
Picks
Tax
Ensure
Group
Smash
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It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because my mind isn't made up. I already have more facts than I can cope with.
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Facts
Mind
Want
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Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want the same to happen to us.
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Automobile
Environment
Want
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What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.
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People
Want
Way
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How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either to become the former or be in a position to receive the latter?
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Ambition
People
Resentment
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Papa Hegel he say that all we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history. I knew people who can't even learn from what happened this morning. Hegel must have been taking the long view.
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Morning
Long
Views
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Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
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Opportunity
Giving
Ideas
Lips
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Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them.
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Kind
Share
Stress
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NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
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Epidemics
Military
Race
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I believe in logic, the sequence of cause and effect, and in science its only begotten son our law, which was conceived by the ancient Greeks, thrived under Isaac Newton, suffered under Albert Einstein... That fragment of a 'creed for materialism' which a friend in college had once shown him rose through Donald's confused mind.
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Believe
Confused
Son
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I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?
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Opportunity
Attitude
Simple
Thinking
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As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.
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Different
Excellence
Mind
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We've been slaves to our tools since the first caveman made the first knife to help him get his supper. After that there was no going back, and we built till our machines were ten million times more powerful than ourselves. We gave ourselves cars when we might have learned to run; we made airplanes when we might have grown wings; and then the inevitable. We made a machine our God.
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Running
Airplane
Powerful
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There's one bright spot in the generally gloomy picture know as the Pacific Conflict Zone. According to my calculations, by the year 2500 or so we should have killed off every last member of our species who is stupid enough to take part in so futile a pastime as this war between "ideals," and with luck they won't have left their genes behind because they'll typically have been killed at an age when society thinks they're too young to assume the responsibility of childbearing. After that we may get some peace and quiet for a change.
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War
Responsibility
Stupid
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