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The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.

Bernard Beckett

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
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Needs Simple Views
The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
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Change Host Ideas Mutate Together
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
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
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Consciousness Feels Memories
In the end, living is defined by dying.
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Death Dying Ends
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
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence.
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Belief Fear Optimistic Problem Years
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
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
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Fear Knowledge Society
I write with teenagers in mind.
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Mind Teenager Writing
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
… from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
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Fear Population Vantage Point

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