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George Pattison

"At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate in their own terms, but they don't address the actual experience of how one or other aspect of religion becomes existentially meaningful to us in our actual lives. The fact that we ourselves are the subject of investigation makes all the difference."

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.

George Pattison

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“I will see beauty and goodness in all things. From all that is unlovely shall my vision be immune.”
“The oil industry is a stunning example of how science, technology, and mass production can divert an entire group of companies from their main task. ... No oil company gets as excited about the customers in its own backyard as about the oil in the Sahara Desert. ... But the truth is, it seems to me, that the industry begins with the needs of the customer for its products. From that primal position its definition moves steadily back stream to areas of progressively lesser importance until it finally comes to rest at the search for oil.”
“The mere pronunciation of the word luxurious feels lush, luxuriant.”
“When I play videogames I'm trying to go deep every pitch. I'm definitely not going to try to do that in real life. In the (video)game I'm trying to leave the yard.”

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“Each year thousands of embryos, no bigger than the head of a pin, are created in the process of in vitro fertilization, with the support of Congress, by the way.”
“This is the great object held out by this association; and the means of attaining it is illumination, enlightening the understanding by the sun of reason which will dispell the clouds of superstition and of prejudice.”
“We need to work less to achieve more. We need to stop fighting food and start embracing it. We need to stop punishing our bodies and start providing for them. We need to slow down and enjoy and then weâ€™ll get the results weâ€™ve been looking forâ€”and sooner than we expect.”

Source : Marc David (2015). “The Slow Down Diet: Eating for Pleasure, Energy, and Weight Loss”, p.17, Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
“I tended to hate people that hit me in the head without warning.”

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