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Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.

Bernard Beckett

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
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions
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
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
In the end, living is defined by dying.
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Death Dying Ends
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Needs Simple Views
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
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
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Fear Knowledge Society
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
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
The people came to fear even their closest neighbors. At the level of the individual, the community, and the nation, people sought signs of others’ ill intentions; and everywhere they looked, they found them, for this is what looking does.
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Community Everyone Intention Level Nation Neighbour People
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
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
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

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