"There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory)."

-- Daniel Dennett

#Memories Quotes #Independent Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Walk slowly; all you can ever come to is yourself.”
“I leave pansies, the symbolic flower of freethought, in memory of the Great Agnostic, Robert Ingersoll, who stood for equality, education, progress, free ideas and free lives, against the superstition and bigotry of religious dogma. We need men like him today more than ever. His writing still inspires us and challenges the 'better angels' of our nature, when people open their hearts and minds to his simple, honest humanity. Thank goodness he was here.”
“Basicly what I had to do was do a 7 minute board and pitch it to a room of big wigs from the network and based on that they determined if I would get a short or not.”
“When to the cross I turn my eyes,And rest on Calvary,O Lamb of God, my sacrifice,I must remember Thee.”

Source : James Montgomery (1860). “The Poetical Works of James Montgomery: In Six Volumes. Original hymns ; Appendix of posthumous poems”, p.104
“Living on Earth has always been a dangerous way to spend your time.”

Source : Anne Lamott (1997). “Rosie: A Novel”, Penguin Books
“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.”
“I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.”
“Extend some kind of unexpected generosity to someone, preferably a stranger, every single day for two weeks. The more you practice being generous, the more you'll impact others in an inspiring way.”

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