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We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the thing that we…

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Perhaps the problem is the seeming need that people have of making black-and-white cutoffs when it comes to certain mysterious phenomena, such…
Enormous numbers of people are taken in, or at least beguiled and fascinated, by what seems to me to be unbelievable hocum,…
I would proclaim that the vast majority of what [say, Scientific American] is true-yet my ability to defend such a claim is…
Reductionism is merciless.
The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for…
One of the most important and fascinating of all computer languages is Lisp (standing for "List Processing"), which was invented by John…
The key question is, no matter how much you absorb of another person, can you have absorbed so much of them that…
Irrationality is the square root of all evil
In fact, a sense of essence is, in essence, the essence of sense, in effect.
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right…
No reference is truly direct—every reference depends on SOME kind of coding scheme. It's just a question of how implicit it is.
The entire effort of artificial intelligence is essentially a fight against computers’ rigidity.

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Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we… — B.F. Skinner
As long as we are lucky we attribute it to our smartness; our bad luck we give the gods credit for. — Josh Billings
Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in… — Albert Einstein
The emotional, physical and aesthetic value of a sound is linked not only to the causal explanation we attribute to it but… — Michel Chion
We create an image of who we are inside our self. The image then becomes very deeply entrenched, and it becomes the… — Douglas Hofstadter
Why is it that we understand playing the cello will require work, but we attribute writing to the magic of inspiration? — Ann Patchett
May we attribute to the color of the herbage and plants, which no doubt clothe the plains of Mars, the characteristic hue… — Camille Flammarion
Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to… — Michel de Montaigne
The Times has much less power than you think. I believe we attribute power to the media generally that it simply doesn't… — Michael Pollan
I believe that God—if he exists at all—is what we want him to be. The true God is unknowable, and so we… — Michael Thomas Ford
When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a… — Jean Cocteau

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