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Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

Bernard Beckett

In the end, living is defined by dying.
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Death Dying Ends
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions
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 write with teenagers in mind.
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Mind Teenager Writing
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
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
… 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
Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.
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Abstraction Littles Think Thinking Way
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
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Needs Simple Views
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
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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Ideas Mind Together Wonderful
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
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Indifference Plague Saying Wracked
This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty, and such a place is too complex for heroes to flourish.
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Compromise Hero Stupid World
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Consciousness Feels Memories

Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

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Science is a little bit more than a wonderful way of modelling and predicting; its a wonderful technical abstraction. I think science is a really wonderful technical abstraction.

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