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"Many an article that I myself penned twenty years ago impresses me now as something quite foreign to myself."
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"Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe."

"Marijuana you can give up, Iv given it up for fifteen years now and it never occurs to me to smoke it anymore."

"Cult recruiting methods based on dosing victims with the brain chemicals released during capture bonding would make cults even more of a problem than they are now."

"For me, the original play becomes an historical document: This is where I was when I wrote it, and I have to move on now to something else."
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"A colour is a physical object as soon as we consider its dependence, for instance, upon its luminous source, upon other colours, upon temperatures, upon spaces, and so forth."

"A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough."

"Man is pre-eminently endowed with the power of voluntarily and consciously determining his own point of view."

"If our dreams were more regular, more connected, more stable, they would also have more practical importance for us."

"The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind."

"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."

"Similarly, many a young man, hearing for the first time of the refraction of stellar light, has thought that doubt was cast on the whole of astronomy, whereas nothing is required but an easily effected and unimportant correction to put everything right again."

"The presentations and conceptions of the average man of the world are formed and dominated, not by the full and pure desire for knowledge as an end in itself, but by the struggle to adapt himself favourably to the conditions of life."

"The plain man is familiar with blindness and deafness, and knows from his everyday experience that the look of things is influenced by his senses; but it never occurs to him to regard the whole world as the creation of his senses."
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