“Her mind is a rotten, infected lump, but her heart beats strong with the pulse of dangerous dreams.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“Broken things don’t always want fixing.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“For unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly.”
Source: Dans un mois, dans un an
“Power is not a thing to earn; it is a thing to conquer.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“We are all born into different worlds, and you survived your world the only way you could.”
Source: Girl of Dust and Smoke
“இருநூறு ரூபாய்க்குத் தாளம் போடும் ரகுநாதன் போன்றவர்களுக்கு அம்மாதிரி விடுதிகள் இருப்பதுகூடத் தெரியாமல் போவதுதான் நல்லது. இருப்பாரைப் பார்த்துத்தானே இல்லாமை அதிகம் தெரிகிறது?”
Source: ஆகாயத் தாமரை [Aagaya Thamarai]
“Framing is magical stuff. It determines people’s experiences and even shapes how they think.
An effective frame can be so sticky that it becomes hard to see things from a different perspective. Once that frame helped transition a small tech start up into the worlds most valuable company.
A frame doesn’t say “Pay attention to this and ignore everything else!” But it creates this effect by putting an idea at the center of our attention and giving as a reason to force on it”
Source: Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen
“Framing is how spellcasting works in the real world. Just by describing something or giving it a name, you called it into being. Well chosen frame can determine what’s relevant, what’s important, or what’s good. When you frame someone’s experience in a compelling way, you shape their expectations as well as their interpretation of events.”
Source: Influence Is Your Superpower: The Science of Winning Hearts, Sparking Change, and Making Good Things Happen
“Well, I think that this is just a question for linguists and lexicographers. Although, as previously mentioned, a person needs to sense another person and needs to think about the person to behave in a certain way, which requires conscious thought, is it possible for a programmed reaction, or a programmed way of behaving, to be defined as behavior? Let me elaborate: if a normal human being is slapped in the face, the person would sense the slap and reflexively think of things such as how painful, unexpected, or annoying it was. Then, the person would say “ow” or maybe try to slap the person back. However, a p-zombie would react by saying “ow,” or by slapping the person back, but it is not doing any of this out of its own will, because without conscious thought, it doesn’t have a will. Something in the p-zombie could cause it to react without having to think, like with a robot; if I were to say “hi” to a robot, it could be programmed to say “hi” back, but it would only do it because it was programmed to do it, not because it senses that a person is saying “hi” and thinks of it as a friendly greeting. If it is possible for a being to be programmed like that, it could do such things, but determining whether or not actions like this are forms of behavior still depends on how society defines behavior. When a person behaves a certain way, he/she provides a reaction for a person. When a robot says “hi” to a person who just said “hi”, it is reacting to that person, so this could be viewed as a behavior, but the dictionary definition is a bit ambiguous, because it doesn’t specify whether the way one acts has to be conscious (like with a normal human being) or unconscious (like with a robot), so linguists and lexicographers need to establish that parameter to define behavior. If linguists and lexicographers were to say that behavior, by definition, does not have to be conscious, then a p-zombie could be conceivable.”
Source: The Reformation
“Noble endurance implies how one chooses to handle inescapable adversities in life, how one bears witness to their highest potential by transforming personal tragedy into triumph, and turning one’s plight into fulfillment and understanding.”