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Forgiveness frees the forgiver.

Lance Morrow

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Lance Morrow
Age: 85
Born: 1939
Born: September 21
Journalist
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Forgiveness

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As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.
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For now, we assume that self-evolving robots will learn to mimic human traits, including, eventually, humor. And so, I can't wait to hear the first joke that one robot tells to another robot.
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