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- A word is an arbitrary label - that's the foundation of linguistics. But many people think otherwise. They believe in word magic: that uttering a…
- Climate change could produce a lot of misery and waste without necessarily leading to large-scale armed conflict, which depends more on ideology and bad governance…
- I have never been a fan of science fiction. For me, fiction has to explore the combinatorial possibilities of people interacting under the constraints imposed…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of… — Jane Austen
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle