C. S. Lewis Quotes
If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individuality. I have to create things she'll want to wear, no matter who she is.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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I think personal beliefs of everybody shape everybody.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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What I don't miss is living in a small town where everybody knows you, your family, and what you ate for breakfast.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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People know I have a good time on stage. I love my life. I love my job.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If I'm still walking, I am not dead. So I have to still walk and run towards the benefit of Lebanon.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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When kids are met with the highest expectations and given the extra supports they need, they can be as motivated as kids anywhere.
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New media's not very old, hence the word new, so we don't know a lot of things about new media and by the time you've taught it it's probably out of date. I think it's much more beneficial to have an experiential lesson versus a classroom lesson in new media.
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People who see an unhappy, sulky pop star assume that she's an ungrateful, self-absorbed little ninny. But nobody knows what's really going on. I need to eat, I need to sleep, and sometimes those things weren't considered. It was like, "When do you think I'll have time to go to the bathroom?" That wasn't on the schedule.
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The breaking up of the terrestrial globe, this it is we witness. It doubtless began a long time ago, and the brevity of human life enables us to contemplate it without dismay. It is not only in the great mountain ranges that the traces of this process are found. Great segments of the earth's crust have sunk hundreds, in some cases, even thousands, of feet deep, and not the slightest inequality of the surface remains to indicate the fracture; the different nature of the rocks and the discoveries made in mining alone reveal its presence. Time has levelled all.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees.
