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It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

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David Eagleman
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: April 25
Author
Neuroscientist
Psychologist
Researcher
University Teacher
Albuquerque
New Mexico
David M Eagleman
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Everybody knows the power of deadlines - and we all hate them. But their effectiveness is undeniable.
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Death... The moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time.
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...you are battered and bruised in the collisions between reminiscence and reality.
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