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“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel, full of mirth and despair. Inherent inconsistences mark me as part of nature, which is neither cruel nor fair, or reliable or predictable.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls
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“In which neighborhood?" I asked. "The neighborhood of Mapstack-the Met's internal version of the Interpol's big data exchange system. It's usually worth a look, just for laughs. These people have no idea how the world works-how the little details connect up. They try to draw links between crimes, but they only work in straight lines so they miss it. They miss everything but fucking methodology. Like the real criminals-I mean, the ones who are so big you never even see them-can't vary their repertoire.”

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Book:Vicious Circle
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“In a certain period, a particular piece of news becomes popular, and people start talking about it everywhere and all the time. Then, this news fades into the past and is replaced by another. People begin thinking and talking about that one. Eventually, it too is replaced by yet another. And now, people are interested in this new topic, calling it "following trends." This is a predictable and, therefore, mechanical cycle.”

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Author:Sov8840
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“Since they are incapable of exploring other perspectives, they internalize this idea and end up as robots who always think in the same way and tirelessly complain about the exact same things, such as getting depressed over "being ugly," furious over "being unable to fit in," shameful over "not being popular," or even becoming suicidal over not being able to have sex and turning into a killer due to being deprived of the "right to party.”

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Author:Sov8840
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“Children love both magic and science for the same reason both are enablers. Both offer power and solutions to impossible problems. But then something shifts when people discover the instability magic brings to existence. It shatters the world that’s been built on predictability and logic. Suddenly the material, the countable, the definable is pulled from underfoot by the capricious, slippery and ego-centric nature of the mind. In that respect it’s the opposite of science, which remains dispassionate and impartial to the observer, predictable no matter what. The laws of motion won’t change because the scientist gets a speeding fine.”

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Book:Magic
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“The moon: in that luminous face one can behold those tired phases that bring only disappointment and no satisfaction; the impulses governing its expression remain patternistic, its cycles of transition easily predictable. With moderated temperament it commands the capricious sea: its diametric opponent, in whose helpless defiance, arises an empty, albeit elegant promise, an ever-changing flicker of reflected light, a simultaneous opening and closing of paths to be traversed, a vacillating hope and disillusionment in whose unsettling direction emerges something one might wish to call, even under the hardened visage of sky, a marginal sense of freedom. To walk upon the decks of ramshackle vessels rising and descending in patterns indeterminate, to lean in ecstasy over their shaky rails to witness the splendor of that which transforms immediately upon being witnessed and which transforms thereby the witness in question: it was these flights of reverie that appealed better to one’s imagination than the lean pragmatism of predictable transition.”

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Book:Inward and Toward
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“Life's Solution builds a forceful case for the predictability of evolutionary outcomes, not in terms of genetic details but rather their broad phenotypic manifestations. The case rests on a remarkable compilation of examples of convergent evolution, in which two or more lineages have independently evolved similar structures and functions.”

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Author:Simon Conway Morris
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“Sure, you can choose the safety and predictability of the cage, forfeiting the adventure God has destined for you. But you won't be the only one missing out or losing out. When you lack the courage to chase the Wild Goose, the opportunity costs are staggering. Who might not hear about the love of God if you don't seize the opportunity to tell them? Who might be stuck in poverty, stuck in ignorance, stuck in pain if you're not there to help free them? Where might the advance of God's kingdom in the world stall out because you weren't there on the front lines?”

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Author:Mark Batterson
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“Taking the politics out of setting the minimum wage provides fairness for workers and predictability for businesses. This legislation will also protect the most vulnerable workers and level the playing field for employers who play by the rules. These are the right steps to take; they will make Ontario a better place to work and run a business.”

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Author:Kevin Flynn
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