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"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
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"Believe it or not, the notions of free will and destiny are not mutually exclusive.Predestination is the universal framework of limits (based on natural physical laws) placed upon us.Free will is our infinite ability to make choices within that framework.Because the universal scale is so great-and most of it constitutes an undiscovered frontier-our choices are only limited by our knowledge, our abilities, and our imagination.To put it simply, the world is such a huge playground sandbox that we will never run out of sand or reach the faraway safety fence of destiny.So go out there and play!"
"The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future."
"The only thing God is afraid of is a strong-willed human!"
"...if there really is some day discovered a formula for all our desires and caprices - that is, an explanation of what they depend upon, by what laws they arise, how they develop, what they are aiming at in one case and in another and so on, that is a real mathematical formula - then, most likely, man will at once cease to feel desire, indeed, he will be certain to. For who would want to choose by rule? Besides, he will at once be transformed from a human being into an organ-stop or something of that sort; for what is a man without desires, without freewill and without choice, if not a stop in an organ?"
"What evidence could possibly be put forward to show that one could have acted differently in the past?"
"The world changed from having the determinism of a clock to having the contingency of a pinball machine."
"I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day."
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"A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery."
"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
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"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."
"I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction."
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