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"I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition."
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"Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

"It's rare to be depressed and be in prime health. Healthy people tend to be happy people."

"All the (sickness and) diseases of the worldly life disappear with the innate bliss of the Soul, the Self. Grief gives rise to the diseases."
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"Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this."


"I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America."


"When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have."


"We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I was taught from this was not to begin a sentence with And. I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with And, but I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible at that time."


"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."


"Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries."


"If you believe in science, like I do, you believe that there are certain laws that are always obeyed."


"We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between brain and computer, so that artificial brains contribute to human intelligence rather than opposing it."
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