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I don’t think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don’t take the toys out of their hands, we’re fools.

— Ray Bradbury  <link>

Most people in my experience are still into fearing God and controlling God instead of loving God.

— Richard Rohr, Things Hidden  <link>

Power is always temporary.

— Martin Firrell [via]  <link>

On Problems

Our choicest plans have fallen through,
our airiest castles tumbled over,
because of lines we neatly drew
and later neatly stumbled over.

—Piet Hein  <link>

Either you control your attitude or it controls you.

— Author unknown  <link>

Only a general knows how and when to use one of his soldiers. Wait, your turn will come.

— St. Pio of Pietrelcina  <link>

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, “darkness” on the walls of his cell.

— C.S. Lewis  <link>