There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary. - Katharine Fullerton Gerould - Quotesmemo.com

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Katharine Fullerton Gerould

There are inquiries which are a sort of moral burglary.

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democracy always makes for materialism, because the only kind of equality that you can guarantee to a whole people is, broadly speaking, physical.

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Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.

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. . . the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

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Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

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Until computers and robots make quantum advances, they basically remain adding machines: capable only of doing things in which all the variables are controlled and predictable. Robots are bad at pattern recognition and certainly at common sense. That's why computers can beat humans in chess but can't have even a basic conversation with a six-year-old.

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