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“Father Lopes confessed he had never imagined that so many madmen, and such mysterious cases of madness, could exist in the world.”
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“The induction had waxed long on the topic of robots and other automated helpmates replacing human labour, but he hadn’t realised that, back in the past, humans had worked so hard to live like robots. The endless round of tasks, the queuing, the utter repetitiveness of these people’s lives. They must, Uncharles predicted, be so grateful to have such lives designed for them. How good it must be to have no choices or options.”
― Service Model
― Service Model
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“The Voice said, "Even if I knew everything, I could not know that I know everything."
Murray said, "That sounds like a bit of Eastern philosophy - something that sounds profound precisely because it has no meaning.”
― Robot Dreams
Murray said, "That sounds like a bit of Eastern philosophy - something that sounds profound precisely because it has no meaning.”
― Robot Dreams
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“You gave me a gift, the killing of one’s kind, murder. Now, as well as I can, I give you my people’s gift, which is not killing. I think we each find each other’s gift heavy to carry. However, you must carry it alone.”
― The Word for World Is Forest
― The Word for World Is Forest
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“I suppose Relativism is cynical. It surely isn’t idealistic. It’s the result of being killed and injured and made poor and working hard for empty words.”
― The World Jones Made
― The World Jones Made
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