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A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

Bernard Beckett

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
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Indifference Plague Saying Wracked
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions
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
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
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
… 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
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
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Consciousness Feels Memories
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
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Needs Simple Views
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
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
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

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