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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

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
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
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
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 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
I write with teenagers in mind.
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Mind Teenager Writing
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
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Consciousness Feels Memories
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
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
A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
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Fear Knowledge Society
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
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Indifference Plague Saying Wracked
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
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

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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