Bernard Beckett Quotes

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism.
• Sometimes, even the very best course of action fails.
• Consciousness is the feel of accessing memory.
• This is always the problem with building heroes. To keep them pure, we must build them stupid. The world is built on compromise and uncertainty,…
• ... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.
• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved,…
• Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.
• I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed.
• The only thing binding individuals together is ideas. Ideas mutate and spread; they change their hosts as much as their hosts change them.
• Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.
• In the end, living is defined by dying.
• A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.
• The more the media peddled fear, the more the people lost the ability to believe in one another. For every new ill that befell them,…
• But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.
• I cannot choose to ignore this feeling, of life slowly bleeding out of me. I cannot ignore the fact that life only makes sense to…
• Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference?
• The mind is not a machine, it is an idea. And the Idea resists all attempts to control it.
• In the end, living is defined by dying. Book- ended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the…
• There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.
• The Idea enters the brain from the outside. It rearranges the furniture to make it more to its liking. It finds other Ideas already in…

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