C. D. Broad Quotes
It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.
Quotes to Explore
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Music is a powerful tool in galvanizing people around an issue. There's no better way to get your point across than to put it in a beautiful song.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Writing is the supreme solace.
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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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The state of mind must be belief, not mere hope or wish. Open-mindedness is essential for belief. Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
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Our words tend to conceal what is private and particular in our impressions, and to make us believe that different people live in a common world to a greater extent than is in fact the case.
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By and large, most of the work that we see in the great museums throughout the world are populated with people who don't happen to look like me.
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It is worth remembering (though there is nothing that we can do about it) that the world as it really is may easily be a far nastier place than it would be if scientific materialism were the whole truth and nothing but the truth about it.
