"Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after……" — Ben Shapiro
"Geopolitical drama lessened but did not die after the Cold War; in 2008, the specter of thousands of seeming automatons banging drums at the opening of the Beijing Games frightened and enthralled the world, reminding us that China was a nation on the rise, a competitor for global dominance."
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I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to…
— Jo Brand
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Today's workplace has become heartless and soulless. Employees are seen as units of labour, automatons, functionaries, objects for achieving designated…
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It takes a greater God to steer a world populated with free agents than it does to steer a world…
— Gregory A. Boyd
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The illusion of self-awareness. Happy automatons, running on trivial programs. I'll bet you never guess. From the inside, how can…
— Vernor Vinge
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Each of the essays in this volume ranges widely across technical and philosophical domains. They examine both familiar automatons from…
— Rodney Brooks
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Many things happen in life. There are joyous days and times of suffering. Sometimes unpleasant things occur. But that's what…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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I have observed that almost all those whose labour lies in the field, and who go down to their business…
— Richard Jefferies
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If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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What people don't appreciate, when they picture Terminator-style automatons striding triumphantly across a mountain of human skulls, is how hard…
— Randall Munroe
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If I were to give a summary of the tendency of our times, I would say, Quantity. The multitude, the…
— Emma Goldman
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds.…
— Ma Jian
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.
— Anais Nin
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