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When I was old enough to change my name, I changed it to Mr. T so that the first word out of someone's mouth was 'Mister,' a sign of respect.

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There is nothing inherently wrong about science.

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You think of yourself as an "individual person", with a unique and separate mind. You think you are born and you think you die. All your life you feel separate and alone. Sometimes desperately so. You fear death because you fear the loss of individuality. All this is an illusion. You, he, she, those things around you living or not, the stars and galaxies, the empty space in between- these are not distinct, separate objects. All is fundamentally entangled.

Stars, Loss, Thinking, Entangled, Individuality, Born

When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.

Book, Writing, Thinking, Hard, Laid

My first job was washing dishes in the basement of a nursing home for $2. 10 an hour, and I learned as much about the value of hard work there as I ever did later.

Basement, Hard Work, Home, Hour, Jobs, Nursing

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box.

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A human being creates complexity by writing a novel on the surface of paper; a weather system creates complexity by writing waves on the surface of an ocean. What is the difference between the information carried in the words of a novel and the information carried on the waves of the sea? Listen, and the waves will speak, and someday, I tell you, you will write your thoughts on the surface of the sea.

Human, Information, Ocean, Sea, Words, Writing
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