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“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
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“For Homo sapiens has rewritten the rules of the game. This single ape species has managed within 70,000 years to change the global ecosystem in radical and unprecedented ways. Our impact is already on a par with that of ice ages and tectonic movements. Within a century, our impact may surpass that of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.”

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Book:Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
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“From what I’ve seen, the world is deeply, profoundly broken (even my atheist friends allow this), and every human I’ve ever gotten to know turns out to have issues. We’re inconsistent, in certain circumstances untrustworthy, and we don’t even live up to our own standards, let alone God’s.”

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Book:Blessed Are the Misfits: Great News for Believers who are Introverts, Spiritual Strugglers, or Just Feel Like They're Missing Something
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“Som mennesker er vi livshistorier, der er flettet sammen med mange andres historier. Selvfølgelig de levendes historier. Dem, der har betydet noget for os og gjort os til dem, vi er. Men også de dødes historier. Dem, der har skabt vores sprog, kultur, myter og viden. Ingen skriver sin historie alene. En stor del af den er givet ved vores biologiske artsnatur, vores almenmenneskelige fornuft, vores følelsesliv og socialitet. Men enhver må finde sin stemme at fortælle med i koret af menneskelige historier. Det er sådan, man bliver sig selv: ved at blive menneske.”

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Book:Hvad er et menneske?
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“The vice of the modern notion of mental progress is that it is always something concerned with the breaking of bonds, the effacing of boundaries, the casting away of dogmas. But if there be such a thing as mental growth, it must mean the growth into more and more definite convictions, into more and more dogmas. The human brain is a machine for coming to conclusions; if it cannot come to conclusions it is rusty. When we hear of a man too clever to believe, we are hearing of something having almost the character of a contradiction in terms. (...) When he drops one doctrine after another in a refined scepticism, when he declines to tie himself to a system, when he says that he has outgrown definitions, when he says that he disbelieves in finality, when, in his own imagination, he sits as God, holding no form of creed but contemplating all, then he is by that very process sinking slowly backwards into the vagueness of the vagrant animals and the unconsciousness of the grass. Trees have no dogmas. Turnips are singularly broad-minded.”

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Book:Heretics
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“The Human recognises that although everyone has different abilities and looks, everyone is equally valuable as a human being. The Human also recognises that trying to impress and keep others happy, in order to be popular, is not a good basis for living life. The Human believes that all you can do is your best. The Human also believes that the values that count in life are not based on looks, achievements or possessions but are based on values such as honesty, integrity, kindness and consideration.”

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Author:Steve Peters
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“إن الحب يهوى التظاهر على شكل صدف عشوائية. فأن يولد حب من ارتطام جسدين في ممر مشاة مزدحم، أو من لقاء غير مخطط له في أمسية شعرية أو في صالة رياضية، أو يخلق هذا الحب بسبب خطأ في العمل، فهذا أكثر الأمنيات في عالمنا الحالي. إن الإنسان هو أكثر الكائنات رومنسية على الإطلاق، وأكثر سذاجة من أي منها، فظل متعلقا بتلك الصدف الرومنسية على الرغم من أنه انكب على دراسة الظواهر الطبيعية، وبعد عناء طول استشف بأن الصدفة محض خرافة قديمة، مع ذلك ظل قسم كبير من الناس متمسكين بصدف الأقدار الجميلة.”

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Book:قارئة الفنجان
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“Even as good shone upon the countenance of the one, evil was written broadly and plainly on the face of the other. Evil besides (which I must still believe to be the lethal side of man) had left on that body an imprint of deformity and decay. And yet when I looked upon that ugly idol in the glass, I was conscious of no repugnance, rather of a leap of welcome. This, too, was myself. It seemed natural and human.”

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Book:The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde / Juggernaut
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