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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| ba66f59 | Ancestor worship must be an appealing idea to those who are about to become ancestors. --Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 4282b8f | Asked by a student for an example of infectious cultural junk that is hard to eradicate, I replied, "Well, it's like, when, like, you use a phrase which, like, isn't really, like, doing any serious work, but, like you go on, like, using it." To which the student replied, "I, like, understand the point, but I wanted, like, an example." | mind | Daniel C. Dennett | |
| dc7b3f9 | But unless dualism or vitalism is true (in which case you have some extra, secret ingredient in you), you are made of robots--or what comes to the same thing, a collection of trillions of macromolecular machines. And all of these are ultimately descended from the original macros. So something made of robots can exhibit genuine consciousness, or genuine intentionality, because you do if anything does. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| b836031 | Take, for instance, the possible fat man in that doorway; and, again, the possible bald man in that doorway. Are they the same possible man, or two possible men? How do we decide? How many possible men are there in that doorway? Are there more possible thin ones than fat ones? How many of them are alike? Or would their being alike make them one? Are no two possible things alike? Is this the same as saying that it is impossible for two thing.. | Daniel C. Dennett | ||
| 5c2d596 | A.W. Tozer captured these ideas very well when he wrote: Here is my view: God sovereignly decreed that man should be free to exercise moral choice, and man from the beginning has fulfilled that decree by making his choice between good and evil. When he chooses to do evil, he does not thereby countervail the sovereign will of God but fulfills it, inasmuch as the eternal decree decided not which choice the man should make but that he should b.. | John C Lennox | ||
| 12ca774 | I am not postulating a "God of the gaps", a god merely to explain the things that science has not yet explained. I am postulating a God to explain why science explains; I do not deny that science explains, but I postulate God to explain why science explains.' Richard Swinburne" | John C. Lennox | ||
| 4c0dd36 | I cannot believe that our existence in this universe is a mere quirk of fate, an accident of history, an incidental blip in the great cosmic drama. Our involvement is too intimate... We are truly meant to be here. | John C. Lennox | ||
| cd28c76 | When Sir Isaac Newton discovered the universal law of gravitation he did not say, 'I have discovered a mechanism that accounts for planetary motion, therefore there is no agent God who designed it.' Quite the opposite: precisely because he understood how it worked, he was moved to increased admiration for the God who had designed it that way. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 32430c8 | The heart of monotheism is that God, who is outside history, is the guarantor of meaning. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 700fa9f | The more we get to know about our universe, the more the hypothesis that there is a Creator God, who designed the universe for a purpose, gains in credibility as the best explanation of why we are here. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 945683c | Here we have the basic ingredients that define human beings as moral beings. God has given them the ability to say "yes" to him by not eating the prohibited tree, and to say "no" to him by eating it. In this way the Bible introduces us to the idea that the humans are moral beings, with all that this implies." | John C. Lennox | ||
| 262da13 | Johannes Kepler described his motivation thus: 'The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order which has been imposed on it by God, and which he revealed to us in the language of mathematics. | John C. Lennox | ||
| e8ad691 | We are a product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe. | John C. Lennox | ||
| b1ba6bd | The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 8b69dbe | Just because a religion has supported science does not prove that the religion is true. Quite so - and the same can, of course, be said of atheism. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 2eb8b96 | Far from science abolishing God, it would seem that there is a substantial case for asserting that it is the existence of a Creator that gives to science its fundamental intellectual justification. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 4ce7456 | The very success of science in showing us how deeply ordered the natural world is provides strong grounds for believing that there is an even deeper cause for that order.' Swinburne is using inference to the best explanation and saying that God is the best explanation for the explanatory power of science. | John C. Lennox | ||
| 58d8646 | You'd think they'd been raised in a palace for all the manners they have." "If they're princes, they probably have been raised in palaces," Mendanbar said. "Princes usually are." "Well, no wonder none of them have any manners, then." The squirrel sniffed. "They ought to be sent to school in a forest, where people are polite. You don't see any of my children behaving like that, no, sir. Please and thank you and yes, sir and no, ma'am--that's.. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| bd4198c | Being upset is no excuse," Mother said sternly. "If you're going to be rude, do it for a reason and get something from it." | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| a83fc1b | So, in a fit of pique, I came up with the silliest thing I could think of, and handed the book in under the title "Bowling for Dragons" | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 4b5fcbc | Thanking all her lucky stars individually and by name, Cimorene twisted and scrambled to her feet, sword ready. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 7b598aa | Mendanbar wondered idly whether a bucket of soapy water plus lemon juice plus dishes would be as good for melting a wizard as one without dishes, and what effect the dishes would have on the process. Being melted was probably not very comfortable, but being melted while cups and plates and forks were falling on your head was likely to be even less so. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 808bfe8 | Seriously, if you really, truly don't understand basic terminology (which was at least half my problem with the adult-level "beginner" books), the children's section is the place to go." | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 08e0909 | I keep forgetting that you're not as empty headed as most princesses. | Patricia C. Wrede | ||
| 40c7ce6 | Word gets around." "You mean they communicate?" A third voice. "You bet they communicate. And the next time they do come, you can be sure they'll case the place carefully. We were lucky. These rats hadn't been bothered in years. They'd grown careless." | Robert C. O'Brien | ||
| 5b41813 | When you live each day with intentionality, there's almost no limit to what you can do. You can transform yourself, your family, your community, and your nation. When enough people do that, they can change the world. When you intentionally use your everyday life to bring about positive change in the lives of others, you begin to live a life that matters. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| fb21ee5 | Good leadership isn't about advancing yourself. It's about advancing your team. The | John C. Maxwell | ||
| be2b346 | If your perception of and response to failure were changed, what would you attempt to achieve? | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 79ab71d | Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9b366c0 | The boss drives his workers; the leader coaches them. The boss depends on authority; the leader on goodwill. The boss inspires fear; the leader inspires enthusiasm. The boss says "I"; the leader, "we." The boss fixes the blame for the breakdown; the leader fixes the breakdown. The boss knows how it is done; the leader shows how. The boss says, "Go"; the leader says, "Let's go!" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 4f86b23 | If you know something without having lived it, your audience experiences a credibility gap. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 8a950f7 | The road to the next level is always uphill, and if a team isn't intentionally fighting to move up, then it inevitably slides down. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 0bb32e1 | people knowledge is much more important than mere product knowledge. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 956c8dd | Helen Keller, author, speaker, and advocate for disabled persons, asserted,"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 6026f59 | You just need to be positive, believe in yourself, and focus on others. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 78dd239 | My friend Nancy Dornan says, "The longest distance between two points is a shortcut." That's really true. For everything of value in life, you pay a price. As you desire to grow in a particular area, figure out what it will really take, including the price, and then determine to pay it." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 1352932 | Winning teams have players who make things happen. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 3d205c1 | most people overrate decision making, and they underrate decision managing. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| dc73d4b | Eleanor Roosevelt said, "One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 9ec9dbc | If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they may have planned for you? Not much." --JIM ROHN" | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 38710ed | Inspirar a otros para hacer un mejor trabajo es el logro de un lider. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 1354d9a | Disappointment comes when reality falls short of our expectations. But nothing falls short of God's expectations because He knows everything. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 97131c9 | The emotion you continually feed is the one that will dominate your life. | John C. Maxwell | ||
| 8084236 | We cannot choose how many years we will live, but we can choose how much life those years will have. We cannot control the beauty of our face, but we can control the expression on it. We cannot control life's difficult moments, but we can choose to make life less difficult. We cannot control the negative atmosphere of the world, but we can control the atmosphere of our minds. | John C. Maxwell |