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the studies show that you're better off sticking with the computer's judgment.

Oh yes, he said. In a fire, the metal can plasticize—lose its stiffness and bend like spaghetti. This was why the World Trade Center buildings collapsed

individual autonomy hardly seems the ideal we should aim for.

And there is such a strategy—though it will seem almost ridiculous in its simplicity, maybe even crazy to those of us who have spent years carefully developing ever more advanced skills and technologies. It is a checklist.

Was money part of the problem?

he told them of the dire condition she was in when she arrived

Josiah Royce wrote a book with the title The Philosophy of Loyalty.

that the chance to shape one's story is essential to sustaining meaning in life;

Her bosses saw her as an ideal prospect.

it's the meaning behind the information that people are looking for more than the facts. The best way to convey meaning is to tell people what the information means to you yourself, he said. And he gave me three words to use to do that.

He described the bad lighting and her extremely thick neck, and was careful to make those sound not like excuses but merely like complicating factors.

Some attendings shook their heads in sympathy.

They were regarded as children: too fragile and simpleminded to handle the truth, let alone make decisions.

in the hierarchy, addressing my errors was Ball's role.

what is the course of action that best serves this understanding

he had brought in no income since the previous August.

What is your understanding of the situation and its potential outcomes? What are your fears and what are your hopes? What are the trade-offs you are willing to make and not willing to make? And what is the course of action that best serves this understanding?

after pondering suicide, Goodman called Neff at his office.

but I began to have doubts about pulling out the screw.

succumbed to a belief that, once you lose your physical independence, a life of worth and freedom is simply not possible.

Unless people are prepared to declare themselves your enemies you have to hunt around for them.

At any rate it seems unlikely that there is any truth in the rumour as I have just this moment invented it.

I remember also speaking to a reporter on Gay News who enquired about my attitude to Gay Dogs and reassuring him of my compassionate attitude to homosexuality among dogs, while secretly feeling they ought to be whipped.

The difference between poetry and rhetoric is being ready to kill yourself instead of your children.