"A distinguished cognitive neuroscientist confessed to me that, because of his religious upbringing, he could not get rid of psychoneural dualism. The idea that one ceases to be after death was too painful to him."

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Mario Bunge

#Religious Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Painful Quotes

“Beneath the ocean surface, bad things are happening. Increasing CO2 makes ocean water more acid, and that threatens to dissolve the shells of some ocean animals. Ouch, how'd you like to have your shell dissolve?”

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“No place is perfect, but I admire Oahu for its offering of the tropical and the urban, and then its Asian-inflected culture and cuisines.”
“Over the years I've had more and more of an association with Nashville.”
“Lend me your ear, while I call you a fool.”

Source : Song: The Witch's Promise, Album: Living In The Past, 1970
“Incurably religious, that is the best way to describe the mental condition of so many people.”
“There is no real teacher who in practise does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.”
“We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.”
“Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.”

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