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• Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.
• I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemie
  for the hardest victort is the victory over self. Aristotle...
• Living: The best demonstration of victory over mortality.
• Another such victory over the Romans, and we are undone. -- Pyrrhu
• Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.
  -- Iris Murdoch...
• No one should hide their true self behind a false face. -- L. Chaney
• In arguing that current theories of brain function cast suspicion on ESP
  psychokinesis, reincarnation, and so on, I am frequently challenged with the most popular of all neuro-mythologies -- the notion that we ordinarily use only 10 percent of our brains....
• Consciousness is art.
• Spirituality is not a transaction with the universe. -- Deng Ming-Dao