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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.

Bernard Beckett

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Fear Knowledge Society
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 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
In the end, living is defined by dying.
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Death Dying Ends
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
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
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
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
Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
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Curiosity Optimism Superstitions
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
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
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
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

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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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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