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Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

Bernard Beckett

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
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Faces Mind Surprise Trying
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Fear Knowledge Society
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Consciousness Feels Memories
Many scholars have complained of our tendency to see history only in conflicts, but I am not convinced they are right. It is in conflict that our values are exposed.
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Conflict History Tendencies
The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
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Ideas Machine Mind
And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.
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Belief Fallen Fragile Problem Superstitious Upon
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Indifference Plague Saying Wracked
I cant see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but theres no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.
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Ability Belief Beyond Evidence Human World
I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit of an interruption. I would love readers to feel like that.
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Book Ideas Interruption People Reader
In the end, living is defined by dying. Book-ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end. Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.
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Book Dying Waiting
Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
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Chance Fear Monsters People Scheme Unable
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
Our world is limited by the machinery we carry. Its very different to the 18th and 19th century Enlightenment scientists who were mostly men of God and thought it was their quest to uncover Gods great plan.
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Century Different Men Our Uncover World
I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to me when I see a smile, or feel another hand in mine.
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Bleeding Feelings Hands
The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them, the media created an explanation, and the explanation always had a face and a name.
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Believe Media Names

Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.

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