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“Sometimes the cost of winning for all the right reasons is so great that spirits die and hearts grow cold.”

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Janet Morris is an American author born on May 25, 1946. Her works span across multiple genres including fantasy, science fiction, and adventure novels, known for her rich imagination and unique narrative style. more

“Every one knows that the heavenly bodies move in certain paths in relation to each other with seeming consistency and regularity which we call [physical] law. ... No one attributes freewill or motive to the material world. Is the conduct of man or the other animals any more subject to whim or choice than the action of the planets? ... We know that man's every act is induced by motives that led or urged him here or there; that the sequence of cause and effect runs through the whole universe, and is nowhere more compelling than with man.”

“...one doubts existence of free will [because] every action determined by heredity, constitution, example of others or teaching of others." "This view should teach one profound humility, one deserves no credit for anything...nor ought one to blame others.”

Should Action Views Existence Teach Doubt Teaching Example Humility Ought Deserve Constitution Blame Profound Credit Determined Free Will Heredity

Author:Charles Darwin

“The inward persuasion that we are free to do, or not to do a thing, is but a mere illusion. If we trace the true principle of our actions, we shall find, that they are always necessary consequences of our volitions and desires, which are never in our power. You think yourself free, because you do what you will; but are you free to will, or not to will; to desire, or not to desire? Are not your volitions and desires necessarily excited by objects or qualities totally independent of you?”

Ifs Thinking Action Desire Quality Principles Objects Illusion Consequence Independent Mere Excited Free Will Inward Persuasion Our Actions Volition

Author:Baron d'Holbach

“I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.”

Writing I Can Reader Kissing

Author:John Cheever

“If the moon, in the act of completing its eternal way around the earth, were gifted with self-consciousness, it would feel thoroughly convinced that it was traveling its way of its own accord on the strength of a resolution taken once and for all. So would a Being, endowed with higher insight and more perfect intelligence, watching man and his doings, smile about man's illusion that he was acting according to his own free will.”

Ifs Men Way Feels Self Earth Perfect Acting Consciousness Taken Higher Moon Eternal Illusion Insight Convinced Free Will Resolution Gifted Accord Self Consciousness Doings Completing

Author:Albert Einstein

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