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The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition (Albert Camus Classics)

by Albert Camus

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The History of the Devil and the Idea of Evil: From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

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A Planet of Viruses

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“Sometimes tradition and habit are just that, comfortable excuses to leave things be, even when they are unjust and unworthy. Sometimes--not often, but sometimes--the cranks and radicals turn out to be right. Sometimes Everyone is wrong.”
― Matthew Scully, Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy

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“The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. ”
― Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer

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“Ignorance is the enemy, curiosity the weapon of choice”
― Peter D. Ward

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“Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come.”
― Kevin Kelly, What Technology Wants

tags: contentment, posterity, purpose, technology

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“When the Lilliputians first saw Gulliver's watch, that "wonderful kind of engine...a globe, half silver and half of some transparent metal," they identified it immediately as the god he worshiped. After all, "he seldom did anything without consulting it: he called it his oracle, and said it pointed out the time for every action in his life." To Jonathan Swift in 1726 that was worth a bit of satire. Modernity was under way. We're all Gullivers now. Or are we Yahoos?”
― James Gleick, Faster: The Acceleration of Just About Everything

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