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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
“Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God?”
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“found graphene hiding out in the graphite from an ordinary pencil.”
― The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
― The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
“If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place . . . If you’re rooted to a spot, you miss a lot of the grace.”
― The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
― The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery
“how we think of free will. While we all think that we first plan our actions and that they are then willfully carried out, in some cases a part of our frontal lobe may actually “decide” first, unconsciously, that we will perform an act, and after we carry out the act we fool ourselves into thinking we planned it.”
― The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
― The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain
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