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Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky

“To confess your fallibility and then do nothing about it is not humble; it is boasting of your modesty.”

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Eliezer Yudkowsky is a writer known for his contributions to the fields of artificial intelligence and cognitive science, particularly in the areas of reinforcement learning and rationalist philosophy. more

“Kai cleared his throat. Stood straighter. "I assume you are going to the ball?" "I-I don't know. I mean, no. No, I'm sorry, I'm not going to the ball." Kai drew back, confused. "Oh well...but...maybe you would change your mind? Because I am, you know." "The prince." "Not bragging," he said quickly. "Just a fact.”

Knows Mind Wells Mean Said Facts Balls Assuming Sorry Confused Throat I'm Sorry Bragging Changing Your Mind Oh Well

Author:Marissa Meyer

“I have to be very careful, however, because I have no intention of providing an excuse for this behavior. It's an attempt to explain how so many women come from backgrounds where the pressure to be a good mother is so severe that if they can't do it, something really snaps.”

Ifs Mother Behavior Pressure Intention Careful Excuse Backgrounds Providing Severe Snaps Good Mother

Author:Caleb Carr

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

Children Kids Science Born Natural Wonder Beats Scientist Libertarian Enthusiasm Cosmos Vastness

Author:Carl Sagan

“However baby man may brag of his science and skill, and however much, in a flattering future, that science and skill may augment; yet for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him, and pulverize the stateliest, stiffest frigate he can make; nevertheless, by the continual repetition of these very impressions, man has lost that sense of the full awfulness of the sea which aboriginally belongs to it.”

Men May Lost Sea Baby Skills Murder Impression Insult Cracks Nevertheless Repetition Doom Sailor Flattering Brag Awfulness

Book:Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

Source: Moby Dick (World Classics, Unabridged)

“There is no hatred in my love for you. Only a sadness I feel all the more strongly for my inability to explain or describe it.”

Feels Sadness Hatred Inability My Love For You

Book:The Broom of the System: A Novel

Source: The Broom of the System: A Novel

“And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.”

Ifs Share Exciting Flood

Book:Winnie-the-Pooh

Source: Winnie-the-Pooh

“Kate realized she had a grave problem. She was infatuated. Or mildly insane. Possibly both.”

Problem Graves Insane Kate Infatuated

Author:Tessa Dare

“Higher than the beasts, lower than the angels, stuck in our idiot Eden.”

Higher Angel Stuck Idiot Beast Eden

Author:Ford Madox Ford

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful.”

Feels Mean Beautiful Reading Alive Something Beautiful Speed Reading

Author:Gaston Bachelard

“I dinna trust him," said Slightly Mad Angus. "He reads books an' such.”

Said Book Mad

Author:Terry Pratchett

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