I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live … - Lois McMaster Bujold

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My training in science is actually one that is very critical of mechanistic science. I was trained in quantum theory which emerged at the turn of the last century. We are a whole century behind in absorbing the leaps that quantum theory made for the human mind.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to. ” - Jimi Hendrix, “The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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The world demands I make good choices on no information, and then blames my maidenhood for my mistakes, as if my maidenhood were responsible for my ignorance. Ignorance is not stupidity, but it might as well be. And I do not like feeling stupid.

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Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

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The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future. But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.

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Well, what is a blessing but a curse from another point of view?

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A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.

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