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The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.

Bernard Beckett

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
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Fear Knowledge Society
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions
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
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
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
… 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
Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.
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Needs Simple Views
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. 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
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Consciousness Feels Memories
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
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
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
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

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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