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Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.

Bernard Beckett

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
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 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
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 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
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
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
Thought, like any parasite, cannot exist without a compliant host.
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Compilant Host Parasites
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
In the end, living is defined by dying.
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Death Dying Ends
… 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
Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
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Consciousness Feels Memories
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.
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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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