"I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!"

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Source : Raymond M. Smullyan, Jason Rosenhouse (2014). “Four Lives: A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan”, p.305, Courier Corporation

Raymond Smullyan

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“There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.”
“Every work is completely different. Sometimes the music is first, sometimes it's parallel, and sometimes the music is after. There's no rule. Music goes differently to your emotions. With music you can create different spaces and feelings easier than you can with the visual - maybe not easier, but in a way, it's more seductive.”

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“The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Wonâ€™t I? in pitiful indecision.”
“You can't be an environmentalist, you can't be an ocean steward without truly walking the walk and you can't walk the walk in the world of the future, the world ahead of us, the world of our children, not eating a plant-based diet.”
“I would love to do a period piece. That would be really cool. And also like to do something transformative and have to transform yourself physically to become that character. Any interesting, fun roles, I'm attracted to.”
“We were always dead against the war.”
“I want a society free of human trafficking”
“Increasing pressure on students to subject themselves to ever more tests, whittling themselves down to rows and rows of tight black integers upon a transcript, all ready to goose-step straight into a computer.”

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