"How can we be â€œfreeâ€ as conscious agents if everything that we consciously intend is caused by events in our brain that we do not intend and of which we are entirely unaware? We canâ€™t."

-- Sam Harris

#Brain Quotes #Agents Quotes #Events Quotes

“Omit and substitute! That's how recipes should be written. Please don't ever get so hung up on published recipes that you forget that you can omit and substitute.”
“If we learned everything there is to know in kindergarten, it was promptly drummed out of us in first grade.”
“I'm not frightened of a bit of silence.”
“Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.”
“If you want to know how many prison cells to build, look at the number of third graders who can't read.”
“If the gains from trade in commodities are substantial, they are small compared to trade in ideas”
“People always assume that bachelors are single by choice and spinsters because nobody asked them. It never enters their heads that poor bachelors might have worn the knees of their trousers out proposing to girls who rejected them or that a girl might deliberately stay unmarried ...”
“And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?”

Source : Alexandra Ripley, Margaret Mitchell (1992). “Scarlett: the sequel to Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the wind”

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