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“I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on.”

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Our thoughts are either focused on what's eternal, life-changing, and true, or lost in the details of our temporary, selfish, false beliefs.

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Just because someone thinks they remember something in detail, with confidence and with emotion, does not mean that it actually happened, .. False memories…

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The Science Delusion is the belief that science already understands the nature of reality in principle leaving only the details to be filled in.

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In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary…

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What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and…

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