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“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

“The man of the future. Hands on a keyboard, eyes on a CRT, in touch with the body of information and thought that the world had been storing since history began. It would all be accessible to Computational Man.”
― Steven Levy, Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution

“Hiroo Onoda’s”
― Mark Manson, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

“She was glad of a moment without talk. For this, after all, was the time she loved Waikiki best. So brief, this tropic dusk, so quick the coming of the soft alluring night. The carpet of the waters, apple-green by day, crimson and gold at sunset, was a deep purple now. On”
― Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key

“Humbly asking pardon to mention it, I detect in your eyes slight flame of hostility. Quench it, if you will be so kind. Friendly cooperation are essential between us.”
― Earl Derr Biggers, The House Without a Key

“The mindfulness meditation I’ve done has been within a particular school of meditation known as Vipassana (pronounced vih PAW suh nuh). Vipassana is an ancient word that denotes clear vision and is usually translated as “insight.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“impermanence.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“three marks of existence”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“dukkha”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“not-self,”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“According to the teaching of the Buddha, the idea of self is an imaginary, false belief which has no corresponding reality, and it produces harmful thoughts of ‘me’ and ‘mine,’ selfish desire, craving, attachment, hatred, ill-will, conceit, pride, egoism, and other defilements, impurities, and problems. It is the source of all the troubles in the world from personal conflicts to wars between nations. In short, to this false view can be traced all the evil in the world.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“arhats,”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“associate the self with control and with firm persistence through time, but on close inspection we turn out to be much less under control, and much more fluid, with a much less fixed identity, than we think.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Capgras delusion,”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Gary Weber.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“United States dropped atomic bombs on two Japanese cities—cities, not military bases—and drew virtually no protest from Americans.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“essences”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Some of our mental machinery is exquisitely geared to that function, including the essence-preservation machinery that makes our enemies more readily blameworthy for bad behavior than our allies and makes it easy to witness the suffering of our enemies with indifference.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Bhikkhu Bodhi,”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“Between what a man calls me and what he simply calls mine the line is difficult to draw.” In that sense, he observed, “our immediate family is a part of ourselves. Our father and mother, our wife and babes, are bone of our bone and flesh of our flesh. When they die, a part of our very selves is gone.”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment

“tanha”
― Robert Wright, Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment