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He needed the people and the clamour around him. There was no questions and no doubts when he stood ...

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The names of entities that have the power to constrain us change with time. Convention and authority...

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But what if, either by choice or by reluctant necessity, you end up not participating in this comfor...

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And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitab...

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Like Alan Turing, Zuse was educated in a system that focused on a child's emotional and philosophica...

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Once she wasn't supposed to like it. To have her in a position she didn't like, that was power. Even...

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Margaret AtwoodMurder in the Dark: Short Fictions and Prose Poems

I have been thinking that the social moulds civilisation fits us into have no more relation to our a...

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Let us not take it for granted that life exists more in what is commonly thought big than in what is...

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Anyhow, whether undergraduate or shop boy, man or woman, it must come as a shock about the age of tw...

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I never learned to say shit before a lady. I don't believe in progress in quite the way you seem to....

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It is not only the hostility of others that may prevent us from questioning the status quo. Our will...

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