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Douglas Preston

"You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled."

Source : Douglas Preston (2009). “Blasphemy”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

Douglas Preston

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“Before I tell you my story," Jasper said. "you must understand that there are places in our world, Bella, where the life span of the never-aging is measured in weeks, and not centuries.”
“God says in the bible that we should love our neighbor and he created us all as equals. I know in my heart that gays and lesbians should have the same government rights that Spencer and I will when we get married. So, yes, this blonde Christian believes in gay marriage.”

Source : "Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Heidi Montag Tweet About Same-Sex Marriage" by Jocelyn Vena, www.mtv.com. April 22, 2009.
“The world belongs to people with IQs of 120. Anything much greater or less amounts to a liability.”
“I promote a healthy lifestyle.”
“Men who can both be right and sit tight are uncommon. I found it one of the hardest things to learn. But it is only after a stock operator has firmly grasped this that he can make big money.”
“Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.”
“Whoever has experienced the power and the unrestrained ability to humiliate another human being automatically loses his own sensations. Tyranny is a habit, it has its own organic life, it develops finally into a disease. The habit can kill and coarsen the very best man or woman to the level of a beast. Blood and power intoxicate ... the return of the human dignity, repentance and regeneration becomes almost impossible.”
“Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com

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