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AI is a tool, not a guide – and it's made critical thinking even more noticeably important.

--Bronwyn Thompson

Dopey quote of the moment

Seeing a tornado and the damage it causes is a powerful reminder that people are not in control of everything.

--Perry Samson

(in Scientific American 

for the love of God)

Murky future quote of the moment

What we don't know is how we'll die. We cannot change that trajectory, but what we can do is spend our time today living like we're going to die, which will invite us into a greater presence in our lives today.

Alua Arthur

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The number of escalators worldwide roughly doubles every ten years.

--Michael Wyetzner

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I'm any situation we find in our lives, when there's something we feel should be better, we must order effort to make it better.

--John Coltrane

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What good would it do to be sad about [colon cancer]? It wouldn't change anything. As much as chemo sucks, it's giving me the ability to be here with my children, so I'm very grateful and thankful for it.

--Brooke Pangrazio

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The modalities create similarities. 

--Joni Mitchell

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You can't be a whore all your life, man. 

--Barry White

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You don't find meteorites, they find you.

--Matt Steam

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You are what you settle for. 

--Janis Joplin

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See you at 49 Hellsfire Road, ten miles beyond Hell. 

--Closing letter comments to District Attorney by Paul Jorski, leader of the Flathead Gang

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Kendall R. Phillips, a professor in the department of communication and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, said that early vaudeville sketches like "Superstitious Joe," from 1913, were full of humorous references to the date. Fixating on Friday the 13th is "really our way of pretending we can control or predict a universe that is uncontrollable and unpredictable," Dr. Phillips said. "So if you think about it, all the things we think are omens of bad luck — Friday the 13th, walking under a ladder, a black cat crossing your path — all those just become ways for us to try to make sense of the reality that is — stuff just happens."

--Sopan Deb

NYT

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In general, I do not like the TED format. It is like popular science diluted with paint thinner.

--Entropy Dave

Practicle quote of the moment

You hear a lot of explosions at times, there's hundreds of them. And so when we hear them we sort of just don't stay near the windows just in case the glass was to break or there was some impact.

--Kristy Ellmer

American doing business in Dubai

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[In the U.S.] a woman in her early 40s is more likely to give birth than a teenager. 

--NYT

Life lesson quote of the moment

If you sell drugs, we will find you, prosecute you, and throw you in prison for a long time.

--Ellis Boyle

US Attorney

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I'm the world's most successful failure.

--Sir Monti Rock III

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I go to Kimbark Elementary School and Valley College.

--Honey Cooper

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I think about poetry as our most ancient hybrid intelligence, a way of interlinking algorithm and emotion very much in the way our new technologies are.

--Sasha Stiles

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When instability rises overseas, whether it's in the Middle East or other regions, it doesn't stay there. It travels through ideology, through online platforms, and sometimes into our own communities.

--Kevin McMahill