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“That we have evolved capacities for social interaction means that we tend to represent morality and misfortune in a very special way, which makes the connection with supernatural agents extremely easy and apparently obvious.”

Book:Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

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“A common explanation is that we imagine person-like agents who rule our destinies because this produces a reassuring view of our existence and the world around us. We project human features onto nonhuman aspects of our world because that makes these aspects more familiar and therefore less frightening.”

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Book:Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought

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“Consequently, for us light-minded and unstable human beings there is sheer fear and trembling in this thought of God's changelessness”

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Book:The Essential Kierkegaard

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“Only in much fear and trembling is a human being able to speak with God, in much fear and trembling”

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Book:The Essential Kierkegaard

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“Apparently the most permanent of the dispositions of the human psyche are those that derive from the fact that, of all animals, we remain the longest at the mother breast.”

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Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Source: The Hero with a Thousand Faces

“Human beings are born too soon; they are unfinished, unready as yet to meet the world. Consequently their whole defense from a universe of dangers is the mother, under whose protection the intra-uterine period is prolonged.”

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Book:The Hero with a Thousand Faces

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“Concerns about technology and fairness go back a long way, even from a legal perspective. For example, as early as the 1970s it was illegal under French law to make any decisions affecting human beings in a purely algorithmic manner—that is, without any human supervision.”

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Book:Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models

Source: Practical Fairness: Achieving Fair and Secure Data Models

“The idea that society can be made more consistent, more accurate, and more fair by replacing idiosyncratic human judgment with numerical models is hardly a new one. In fact, their use even in criminal justice is nearly a century old.”

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Book:Practical Time Series Analysis: Prediction with Statistics and Machine Learning

Source: Practical Time Series Analysis: Prediction with Statistics and Machine Learning

“Any uniform is a form against Human Freedom”

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“The jungle king for lion is a human.”

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“And thank you for feelings changing; for that strange human ability to adjust and adapt and survive; for black becoming white, and white becoming black. That we are not carved in stone, not like marble statues, endless and immortal and unchanging, but human.”

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Book:Special Forces - Veterans

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