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Mel Gibson

Mel Gibson, born on January 3, 1956, is an internationally renowned actor. He is known for his exceptional performances in films, particularly in the action and war genres. Gibson's career began in 1977 with his lead role in the film 'Starship Troopers'. Since then, he has starred in numerous successful films, including 'Braveheart', 'Apocalypto', and the 'Lethal Weapon' series. Gibson has not only achieved great success in his acting career but has also directed and written several films. more

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“To plead the organic causation of a religious state of mind, then, in refutation of its claim to possess superior spiritual value, is quite illogical and arbitrary, unless one have already worked out in advance some psycho-physical theory connecting spiritual values in general with determinate sorts of physiological change. Otherwise none of our thoughts and feelings, not even our scientific doctrines, not even our dis -beliefs, could retain any value as revelations of the truth, for every one of them without exception flows from the state of their possessor's body at the time.”

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Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience
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“Who does not see that we are likely to ascertain the distinctive significance of religious melancholy and happiness, or of religious trances, far better by comparing them as conscientiously as we can with other varieties of melancholy, happiness, and trance, than by refusing to consider their place in any more general series, and treating them as if they were outside of nature's order altogether?”

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Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience
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“Need and struggle are what excite and inspire us; our hour of triumph is what brings the void. Not the Jews of the captivity, but those of the days of Solomon 's glory are those from whom the pessimistic utterances in our Bible come.”

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Book:The Will to Believe: And Other Essays in Popular Philosophy, and Human Immortality
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