Daniel Dennett Quotes
But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
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Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I'm a proud family man.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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I find it slightly absurd that the only thing we consume more of than water is concrete.
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He also didn't like a lock of my hair and said that he couldn't get into the moment without the hair being just right. I quietly knew that he was anxious and that the hairdo wasn't the real issue. But we all let it go and came back to the scene sometime later.
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To make theater out of real life, you need to catch dialogue when it happens.
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Sometimes I feel like there are just too many things weighing on my mind at once, and I can't control my thoughts or even my body at times.
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If I have a meeting or need to look more done up, the thing I can always do is a cat eye.
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Quis color ille vadis, seras cum propulit umbrasHesperus et viridi perfudit monte Mosellam!tota natant crispis iuga motibus et tremit absenspampinus et vitreis vindemia turget in undis.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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In various fields, such as science, technology, sports, business and the arts, immigrants enrich our culture every single day.
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But if we ask where precisely in the brain that point of view is located, the simple assumptions that work so well on larger scales of space and time break down. It is now quite clear that there is no single point in the brain where all information funnels in, and this fact has some far from obvious consequences.
