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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McCain I'd vote against under any circumstance.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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We're not the corporation of Foster the People. We're a band.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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Thus an army without flexibility never wins a battle. A tree that is unbending is easily broken.
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A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.
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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.
