"...the proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals……" — Terry Pratchett

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• The central problem of novel-writing is causality. — Jorge Luis Borges
• I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see… — Albert Einstein
• I have tried to read philosophers of all ages and have found many illuminating ideas but no steady progress toward… — Max Born
• I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in… — Albert Einstein
• In truth, one cannot, it seems, oppose mechanism and finalism, one cannot oppose mechanism and anthropomorphism, for if the functioning… — Georges Canguilhem
• The poetic image exists apart from causality. — Gaston Bachelard
• Things worthwhile generally don’t just happen. Luck is a fact, but should not be a factor. Good luck is what… — Branch Rickey
• Between hindsight bias, fake causality, positive bias, anchoring/priming, et cetera et cetera, and above all the dreaded confirmation bias, once… — Eliezer Yudkowsky
• The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age,… — Bertrand Russell
• We are not just highly evolved animals with biological computers embedded inside our skulls; we are also fields of consciousness… — Stanislav Grof
• Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine… — Mike W. Barr
• So the ideology was that: use sounds as instruments, as sounds on tape, without the causality. It was no longer… — Luc Ferrari

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