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A quotation from Arthur Conan Doyle

I cannot live without brain-work. What else is there to live for? Stand at the window here. Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world? See how the yellow fog swirls down the street and drifts across the dun-coloured houses. What could be more hopelessly prosaic and material? What is the use of having powers, doctor, when one has no field upon which to exert them? Crime is commonplace, existence is commonplace, and no qualities save those which are commonplace have any function upon earth.

Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) British writer and physician
Story (1890-02), “The Sign of the Four,” ch. 1 [Holmes], Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, Vol. 45 (US) / 1 (UK)

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A quotation from Montaigne

We readily acknowledge in others an advantage in courage, in bodily strength, in experience, in agility, in beauty; but an advantage in judgment we yield to no one. And the arguments that come from simple natural reasoning in others, we think we would have found if we had merely glanced in that direction.
 
[Nous reconnoissons aysément és autres, l’advantage du courage, de la force corporelle, de l’experience, de la disposition, de la beauté: mais l’advantage du jugement; nous ne le cedons à personne: Et les raisons qui partent du simple discours naturel en autruy, il nous semble qu’il n’a tenu qu’à regarder de ce costé-là, que nous ne les ayons trouvees.]

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) French essayist
Essays, Book 2, ch. 17 (2.17), “Of Presumption [De la Presomption]” (1578) [tr. Frame (1943)]

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🚨🚨 ALERT: #AI is apparently the grim reaper of #human intellect! According to this article, relying on AI is like putting your brain on a lifetime Netflix binge, slowly eroding human genius. 🤯 But don't worry, there's a sequel coming soon: "How to Outrun the AI #Apocalypse with a #Tinfoil #Hat." 🤖🎩
https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/ai-assisted-cognition-endangers-human-development/ #Intellect #Tech #News #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🚨 ALERT: #AI is apparently the grim reaper of #human intellect! According to this article, relying on AI is like putting your brain on a lifetime Netflix binge, slowly eroding human genius. 🤯 But don't worry, there's a sequel coming soon: "How to Outrun the AI #Apocalypse with a #Tinfoil #Hat." 🤖🎩
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🚨🚨 ALERT: #AI is apparently the grim reaper of #human intellect! According to this article, relying on AI is like putting your brain on a lifetime Netflix binge, slowly eroding human genius. 🤯 But don't worry, there's a sequel coming soon: "How to Outrun the AI #Apocalypse with a #Tinfoil #Hat." 🤖🎩
https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/ai-assisted-cognition-endangers-human-development/ #Intellect #Tech #News #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🚨 ALERT: #AI is apparently the grim reaper of #human intellect! According to this article, relying on AI is like putting your brain on a lifetime Netflix binge, slowly eroding human genius. 🤯 But don't worry, there's a sequel coming soon: "How to Outrun the AI #Apocalypse with a #Tinfoil #Hat." 🤖🎩
https://heidenstedt.org/posts/2026/ai-assisted-cognition-endangers-human-development/ #Intellect #Tech #News #HackerNews #ngated

🚨🚨 ALERT: #AI is apparently the grim reaper of #human intellect! According to this article, relying on AI is like putting your brain on a lifetime Netflix binge, slowly eroding human genius. 🤯 But don't worry, there's a sequel coming soon: "How to Outrun the AI #Apocalypse with a #Tinfoil #Hat." 🤖🎩
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A quotation from A. A. Milne

I wrote somewhere once that the third-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the majority, the second-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking with the minority, and the first-rate mind was only happy when it was thinking. With equal truth it may be said that a first-rate mind is not one which does not remember the past, nor is it one which cannot forget the past; it is a mind which will use the past but not be ordered by it. It is a mind independent of everybody and everything but the facts in front of it. It is as little perturbed to find itself sharing a thought with the simple as it is elated to find itself sharing a thought with the subtle.

A. A. Milne (1882-1956) English poet and playwright [Alan Alexander Milne]
War with Honour, Macmillan War Pamphlets, Issue 2 (1940)

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A quotation from John Adams

Our Passions, Ambition, Avarice, Love, Resentment &c possess so much metaphysical Subtilty and so much overpowering Eloquence, that they insinuate themselves into the Understanding and the Conscience and convert both to their Party. And I may be deceived as much as any of them, when I Say, that Power must never be trusted without a Check.

John Adams (1735–1826) American lawyer, Founding Father, statesman, US President (1797–1801)
Letter (1816-02-02) to Thomas Jefferson

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Article # 155 – Que veut dire penser ? Arabes et Latins, Jean-Baptiste Brenet, Rivages poche – Petite Bibliothèque, 2025.

https://philotherapie.ca/2026/01/12/article-155-que-veut-dire-penser-arabes-et-latins-jean-baptiste-brenet-rivages-poche-petite-bibliotheque-2025/