George F. R. Ellis Quotes
This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Europe and Africa share proximity and history, ideas and ideals, trade and technology. You are tied together by the ebb and flow of people. Migration presents policy challenges - but also represents an opportunity to enhance human development, promote decent work, and strengthen collaboration.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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When you seek the presence of your creative Spirit and are filled with passion about virtually everything you undertake, you'll successfully remove the roadblocks from your life and enjoy the active presence of Spirit.
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To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.
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The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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We need to download scientific journals and upload them to file-sharing networks.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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Total commitment is the common denominator among all successful men and women.
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And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.
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There is a difference between being arrogant about yourself as a person and being confident that your work has some value. The first is unattractive; the second is healthy and natural.
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I always feel like hard work leads the way, and from there, I leave it up to the powers that be.
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I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.
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The future doesn't exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we're the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today.
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I've moved on to Plan B now, writing novels.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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Multitasking creates a dopamine-addiction feedback loop, effectively rewarding the brain for losing focus and for constantly searching for external stimulation.
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It is the facts that matter, not the proofs. Physics can progress without the proofs, but we can't go on without the facts ... if the facts are right, then the proofs are a matter of playing around with the algebra correctly.
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In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.
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This is absolutely correct and forms part of the larger concept that top-down causation is a key factor not just in the way the brain works but in broader contexts in biology and even physics.
