"Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails."
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"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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"In this environment it was a simple matter for The Republic to maintain its structure. People did as they were told because they were working together, focused on a common threat, a shared enemy. But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip."
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"I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kants idea that the world as we see it is absolutely a function of the way our brain works. In the modern parlance, its an evolved machine that we carry with us."
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"Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect."
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"Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory."
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"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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