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

Bernard Beckett

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
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
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
… 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
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
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
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Indifference Plague Saying Wracked
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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Abstraction Littles Think Thinking Way
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
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
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
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions
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

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