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Beginning with adolescence, my political formation was oriented in the ideological direction of Marxism. It was natural, being that my thinking was influenced by an atmosphere of active critical resistance. That was the way it was during all of the dictatorship and up to the Revolution of 1974. Jose Saramago

To continue living, we have to die. That's the story of humanity - generation after generation - that we are going to die. There's nothing dramatic about death except that one loses one's life. Jose Saramago

Life Death Generation Humanity Nothing Living Dramatic About Except Continue Loses Die Going After Story

The brainy class is made up of individuals who think for themselves and beyond formal education are continuous learners who tend to be self-taught. Maximillian Degenerez

Education Class Brainy Made Think Tend Individuals Beyond Learners Continuous Self-Taught Up Formal Formal Education Themselves Who

At the end of the day, we came into the world naked, and that's the way we're going to go. Sara Sampaio

Day World End Of The Day Naked Way Came Go End Going

I take things very seriously. Anibal Cavaco Silva

Seriously Take Very Things

A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics. Anibal Cavaco Silva

Politics Partner Nation President Make Italian Comments Should

The savings rate in Italy is high, but the markets do not trust Italy even though it's the third largest economy in the European Union and the eighth in the world. Anibal Cavaco Silva

Trust World Savings Markets Though High Rate Economy Italy Eighth Union European European Union Even Largest Third

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Antonio Damasio

Politics Art Freedom Nature Religion Technology Justice Science Culture Economics Science And Technology Those Some Morality Allow Develop Instruments Permits Confrontation Us Measure Consciousness

When we talk about emotion, we really talk about a collection of behaviors that are produced by the brain. You can look at a person in the throes of an emotion and observe changes in the face, in the body posture, in the coloration of the skin and so on. Antonio Damasio

You Face Skin Changes Collection About Posture Emotion Observe Look Talk Brain Person Behaviors Produced Really Body

To me, body and mind are different aspects of specific biological processes. Antonio Damasio

Me Mind Different Processes Body Aspects Specific Biological

I got interested in the emotions after studying patients who had lost the ability to emote and feel under certain circumstances. Many of those patients also had major impairments in their ability to make decisions. Antonio Damasio

We do not merely perceive objects and hold thoughts in our minds: all our perceptions and thought processes are felt. All have a distinctive component that announces an unequivocal link between images and the existence of life in our organism. Antonio Damasio

In 'Self Comes to Mind' I pay a lot of attention to simple creatures without brains or minds, because those 'cartooned abstractions of who we are' operate on precisely the same principles that we do. Antonio Damasio

Simple Mind Pay Minds Those Self Abstraction Attention Operate Principles Because Without Lot Brains Same Precisely Who Creatures

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation. Antonio Damasio

Feelings Changes Our Would Would-Be Like Unthinkable Reacting Self-Image Without How Stimuli Representation Much Certain Body Based Consciousness

When you deal with something like compassion for physical pain, which we know is very, very old in evolution - we can find evidence for it in nonhuman species - the brain processes it at a faster speed. Compassion for mental pain took many seconds longer. Antonio Damasio

You Old Compassion Pain Faster Speed Took Seconds Evidence Evolution Find Physical Mental Physical Pain Something Longer Like Know Deal Brain Very Which Processes Many Species

The humanitarian aid system is built on a concept that when disaster strikes, outside agencies provide a temporary helping hand until people can take back control of their own lives. But across the world, we see millions of people caught in semi-permanent crises. As each year goes by, they are less and less likely to break free. Antonio Guterres

People World Free Year Own Control Aid Back Strikes Crises System See Temporary Take Outside Disaster Concept Until Likely Built Caught Provide Hand Goes Break Agencies Across Less Helping Helping Hand Each Lives Each Year Humanitarian Millions Millions Of People

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