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All life is no more than a match struck in the dark and blown out again.


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What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.



Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.

Every atom in your body is the same quark in different places at the same moment in time.



Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.

Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively constructed by it.



As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.

As an undergraduate I majored in British and American literature at Rice University.



The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.

The first lesson about trusting your senses is: don't. Just because you believe something to be true, just because you know it's true, that doesn't mean it is true.



It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

It turns out your conscious mind - the part you think of as you - is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.



There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.

There is a looming chasm between what your brain knows and what your mind is capable of accessing.



You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.

You are more likely to believe that a statement is true if you have heard it before - whether or not it is actually true.



Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.

Love was not specified in the design of your brain; it is merely an endearing algorithm that freeloads on the leftover processing cycles.



We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.

We don't really understand most of what's happening in the cosmos. Is there any afterlife? Who knows.





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A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.



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Speaking as a black person, welfare is the worst thing that's ever happened to us.



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I'm never anywhere for more than three weeks.



What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.



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I was just a big guy running down with a big, deep pocket and little short stick putting it against my chest.



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I'm abstaining from romance and the discussion of romance.



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And I realize how useless wails are and how gratuitous melancholy is.



It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.

It's not the wickedness of the pagan that breaks my heart. It's the compromise of the Christian that grieves my soul.




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