"Consciousness... I think we should think of it as something we do."

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Source : "You Are Not Your Brain: Interview With Alva Noe, Ph.D". Interview with Deepak Chopra on Sirius XM Radio, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2009.

Alva Noe

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“Capitalism Survive?â€”I have tried to show that a socialist form of society will inevitably emerge from an equally inevitable decomposition of capitalist society.”
“To live long and achieve happiness, cultivate the art of radiating happiness.”
“It is the Germans who are responsible for the fact that I became a fabricator of arms. If not for them, I would have constructed agricultural machines.”
“It indicates a person who has not only good manners but who possesses a sense of balance, a sure mastery of himself, a moral discipline that permits him to subordinate voluntarily his own selfish interest to the wider interests of the society in which he lives. The gentleman, therefore is a cultural person in the noblest sense of the word, if by culture we mean not simply wealth of intellectual knowledge but also the ability to fulfil one's duty and understand one's fellow man by respecting / every principle, every opinion, every faith that is sincerely professed.”
“Oh heavy change. The world deteriorates like a rotting apple, worms and a skin.”

Source : Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1938-1962”, p.418, Stanford University Press
“I do not believe, given her past decisions and comments on the reasons to go to war in Iraq, that Dr. Rice will be able to represent the United States without a predetermined bias from the war.”
“When things aren't working out for people, the end of the world seems like an easy way to wipe the slate clean.”

Source : Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 15, 2012.
“Gratitude isn't a burdening emotion.”

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