Our capacity for meaningful change is contingent on understanding the nature of the problem.

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He would not have merrily hopped on the same-sex marriage bandwagon without first carefully considering how the issue fit with his understanding of the laws of nature and nature's God, of the first things and first principles that conservatives of Reagan's generation spent years discussing at great length in their books and publications and conferences.

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Jeff Hawkins, inventor of the PalmPilot and the Treo mobile phone, used a chunk of his money to fund research into understanding the nature of consciousness, and he even wrote a book on the topic.

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