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“The idea of determinism, he said, is that everything that happens, and every decision or action you make, is "causally inevitable." Why? Because everything is caused by something else: a preceding action, event or situation. [...] He said people can only act as they actually do. A murderer, for example, will inevitably murder because his childhood, his genes, his brain chemistry, his socioeconomic situation, his fear of rejection, the convenient proximity of a defenseless woman on a dark street corner, will all lead him, inevitably, to murder. Someone said, quite passionately as I recall, as if we were speaking of a specific murder and not a hypothetical one, "But he chose to murder! He had free will!" The bearded man said he himself was a "hard determinist" and therefore did not believe in free will. [...] If free will doesn't exist, if all your decisions and actions are inevitable, are you still required to apologize for them?”

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Book:Here One Moment
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“Trevor and his father watched as two mortal enemies from the deadliest conflict in human history shared a reunion as joyful as one between long-lost brothers.... None of those people would have ever been born if GG had done his duty and killed this man so many years ago. A snap decision, a moment of mercy, and all those lives suddenly became possible. It would not bring back Renee's family, but it was a miracle just the same.”

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Book:War Stories
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“There is something in the depths of our being that hungers for wholeness and finality. Because we are made for eternal life, we are made for an act that gathers up all the powers and capacities of our being and offers them simultaneously and forever to God. The blind spiritual instinct that tells us obscurely that our owns lives have a particular importance and purpose, and which urges us to find out our vocation, seeks in so doing to bring us to a decision that will dedicate our lives irrevocably to their true purpose. The man who loses this sense of his own personal destiny, and who renounces all hope of having any kind of vocation in life has either lost all hope of happiness or else has entered upon some mysterious vocation that God alone can understand.”

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Book:No Man Is an Island
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“I never felt worthy. I was not. And still, I know that for him, I would have sold every organ of my body on the vilest, filthiest market, for the lowest price imaginable, if only he had asked-if only he had wished it. That is how much I loved him. That is how much I love him still. And I hate him with the fury of a volcano whose wrath petrifies all around it, condemning all it touches to ruin”

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Book:Fatalité
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