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"The principal barrier to a general acceptance of the monist position is that it is counterintuitive."
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"Sleeping in the rain helps me forget things like I am going todie and you are going to die and the cats are going to diebut it's still good to stretch out and know you have arms andfeet and a head, hands, all the parts, even eyes to closeoncemore, it really helps to know these things, to know youradvantagesand your limitations, but why do the cats have to die, Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight."
"You can't escape the existential suffering of life as long as you are living. So get used to it."
"Evil doesn't always have one face, Ethan."
"You do not need to make everyone happy, because you are not paid for."
"Your skin is your skin. Your legs are your legs. Your hair is your hair. Your smile is your smile. Your past is your past. You can waste your life hating these things, but you may as well learn to accept them. Both routes are difficult and full of pain, but with acceptance, you will be happy one day, while with hatred, you never will."
"This body had carried me through a hard life. It looked exactly the way it was supposed to."
"To Acknowledge Demonstrates Acceptance."
"Until I realize that it's all I gift, I can hold all of it and yet receive none of it."
"Don't resent a woman for who she is not, love her for who she is."
"It was a shallow thing, this acceptance, but sometimes even shallow things feel important."
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"But the power of science lies in open publication, which, with the rise of the Internet, is no longer constrained by the price of paper."
"We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage."
"The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month."
"But because we live in an age of science, we have a preoccupation with corroborating our myths."
"Through no divine design or cosmic plan, we have inherited the mantle of life's caretaker on the earth, the only home we have ever known."
"The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out."
"Scientific prayer makes God a celestial lab rat, leading to bad science and worse religion."
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