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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
"Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."
"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
"Being comfortable isn't the way to learn to expand your abilities."
"A diagnosis is burden enough without being burdened by secrecy and shame."
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"Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet?"
"I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary."
"And, for an instant, she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human."
"It's impossible to move, to live, to operate at any level without leaving traces, bits, seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information."
"I think that technologies are morally neutral until we apply them. It's only when we use them for good or for evil that they become good or evil."
"For years I have been mourning and not for my dead, it is for this boy for whatever corner in my heart died when his childhood slid out of my arms."
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