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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Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
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I don't think anyone has ever announced running for president that they want to change the Bill of Rights.
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Story was that human civilization started to develop with first social network. Emerged where population concentration was high. Helped propel to where we are now. Facebook is next step of creating a huge human brain to embrace hundreds of million, possibly billions of people.
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What do you say when someone has truly inspired you? How do you express to an artist how deeply their work has affected you?
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Compromise is not such ignoble and deplorable a thing as we generally think. It is rather an indispensable factor in the political strategy. Any nation that rises against the oppressors is bound to fail in the beginning and to gain partial reforms during the medieval period of its struggle through compromises.
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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.
