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There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.David Eagleman
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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.David Eagleman
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Among all the creatures of creation, the gods favor us: We are the only ones who can empathize with their problems.David Eagleman
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Since we live in the heads of those who remember us, we lose control of our lives and become who they want us to be.David Eagleman
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All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.David Eagleman
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.David Eagleman
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Although we credit God with designing man, it turns out He's not sufficiently skilled to have done so. In point of fact, He unintentionally knocked over the first domino by creating a palette of atoms with different shapes. Electron clouds bonded, molecules bloomed, proteins embraced, and eventually cells formed and learned how to hang on to one another like lovebirds. He discovered that by simmering the Earth at the proper distance from the Sun, it instinctively sprouted with life. He's not so much a creator as a molecule tinkerer who enjoyed a stroke of luck: He simply set the ball rolling by creating a smorgasbord of matter, and creation ensued.David Eagleman
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Everything that creates itself upon the backs of smaller scales will by those same scales be consumed.David Eagleman
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When you arrive in the afterlife, you find that Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley sits on a throne. She is cared for and protected by a covey of angels. After some questioning, you find out that God's favorite book is Shelley's Frankenstein. He sits up at night with a worn copy of the book clutched in his mighty hands, alternately reading the book and staring reflectively at the night sky.David Eagleman
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That afternoon She listened to the grievances of the dead from two warring nations. Both sides had suffered, both sides had legitimate grievances, both pled their cases earnestly. She covered Her ears and moaned in misery. She knew Her humans were multidimensional and She could no longer live under the rigid architecture of Her youthful choices.David Eagleman