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476fd23	The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.	believe healing hope inner-strength inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes invincibility wild-roses	C. JoyBell C.
d302876	I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.	fantasy inspirational religion	C. S. Lewis
cee0a66	There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)	safe	John C. Maxwell
f6bf012	It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.	beautiful divine flight flying flying-spirit inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes wings-of-god	C. JoyBell C.
a104a2c	After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.	love relationships romance	Arthur C. Clarke
82529a9	Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.	science	Arthur C. Clarke
99f357d	But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in the workshop on the future of naturalism) that they lean the other way: free will, in their view, is obviously incompatible with naturalism, with determinism, and very likely incoherent against any background, so they cheerfully insist that of course they don't have free will, couldn't have fr..	consciousness determinism free-will incompatibilism naturalism science sean-carroll	Daniel C. Dennett
d6798fb	I have a dream." "Is your dream very big?" "No." "Well is it very grand?" "Not either." "Neither?" "Neither." "What is it then?" "It is very shiny.	dreaming dreams dreams-inspirational heartwarming inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring sweet	C. JoyBell C.
e338e81	Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!	cake cakes happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes joy life life-and-living living looking-no-further the-way-of-the-cake the-way-to-happiness understanding-happiness understanding-joy	C. JoyBell C.
beb87b7	The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.	inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living onion-skins people persona the-world	C. JoyBell C.
c5a2674	I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.		Arthur C. Clarke
c6081a6	The coward says in his heart "There is no love." Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it.	cowardice inspirational inspirational-quotes love power-of-love the-coward	C. JoyBell C.
e2ec99b	Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.		Daniel C. Dennett
e8963d9	All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.	mice-men planning plans unpredictability	Arthur C. Clarke
c3e941e	The thing's hollow--it goes on forever--and--oh my God!--		Arthur C. Clarke
e4465a3	There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.		Arthur C. Clarke
f9951fc	Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!	delicate fake gentle genuine inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes parable parables real silk soft strength strength-of-a-woman stupidity stupidity-of-man wisdom wisdom-quotes	C. JoyBell C.
6654e54	You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.	discipline	John C. Maxwell
f5c7a0b	Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.		John C. Maxwell
f6ea504	Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.		Arthur C. Clarke
17a276f	Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.	science	Arthur C. Clarke
f0cbe4e	Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.		Arthur C. Clarke
83ec896	science fiction is something that happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that happen - though often you only wish that it could.	science-fiction	Arthur C. Clarke
5571771	Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.	success	John C. Maxwell
a1f5fbd	Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence	incompetence social	Arthur C. Clarke
ba3dc91	If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on teaching your children false-hoods--that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection--then you must expect, at the very least, that th..	religion science	Daniel C. Dennett
0434133	Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.	computers diversity robots	Arthur C. Clarke
1775558	Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckies..		Daniel C. Dennett
755037d	There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. --Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995	science	Daniel C. Dennett
60ba5b9	If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.	free-will unconscious	Daniel C. Dennett
61f8ea6	Now I understand," said the last man."		Arthur C. Clarke
f388450	If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae." --	rayleigh sky	Philip C. Plait
58251b1	Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.	discipline growth-process	John C. Maxwell
197b6e3	Open the pod bay doors, Hal.		Arthur C. Clarke
18d4211	1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.	magic possibility science technology	Arthur C. Clarke
52e24c5	A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential		John C. Maxwell
0cac5ea	Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.		Arthur C. Clarke
ea2c459	the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.	psychology	Arthur C. Clarke
e8343a1	You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.		John C. Maxwell
d9ad577	Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias--boredom.	utopian utopias	Arthur C. Clarke
e0bc22b	It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.	mistakes wise	John C. Maxwell
0f7ef93	Humor was the enemy of desire.		Arthur C. Clarke
827cd6f	When in doubt, say nothing and move on.		Arthur C. Clarke
f7d31a5	In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.	science space	Arthur C. Clarke

476fd23

The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.

believe healing hope inner-strength inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes invincibility wild-roses

C. JoyBell C.

d302876

I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words.

fantasy inspirational religion

C. S. Lewis

cee0a66

There was a very cautious man Who never laughed or played He never risked, he never tried, He never sang or prayed. And when he on day passed away, His insurance was denied, For since he never really lived, They claimed he never really died. (Anonymous poem)

safe

John C. Maxwell

f6bf012

It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.

beautiful divine flight flying flying-spirit inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes wings-of-god

C. JoyBell C.

a104a2c

After their encounter on the approach to Jupiter, there would aways be a secret bond between them---not of love, but of tenderness, which is often more enduring.

love relationships romance

Arthur C. Clarke

82529a9

Now I'm a scientific expert; that means I know nothing about absolutely everything.

science

Arthur C. Clarke

99f357d

But recently I have learned from discussions with a variety of scientists and other non-philosophers (e.g., the scientists participating with me in the workshop on the future of naturalism) that they lean the other way: free will, in their view, is obviously incompatible with naturalism, with determinism, and very likely incoherent against any background, so they cheerfully insist that of course they don't have free will, couldn't have fr..

consciousness determinism free-will incompatibilism naturalism science sean-carroll

Daniel C. Dennett

d6798fb

I have a dream." "Is your dream very big?" "No." "Well is it very grand?" "Not either." "Neither?" "Neither." "What is it then?" "It is very shiny.

dreaming dreams dreams-inspirational heartwarming inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspiring sweet

C. JoyBell C.

e338e81

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!

cake cakes happiness inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes joy life life-and-living living looking-no-further the-way-of-the-cake the-way-to-happiness understanding-happiness understanding-joy

C. JoyBell C.

beb87b7

The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.

inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life living onion-skins people persona the-world

C. JoyBell C.

c5a2674

I will not be afraid because I understand ... And understanding is happiness.

Arthur C. Clarke

c6081a6

The coward says in his heart "There is no love." Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it.

cowardice inspirational inspirational-quotes love power-of-love the-coward

C. JoyBell C.

e2ec99b

Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.

Daniel C. Dennett

e8963d9

All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.

mice-men planning plans unpredictability

Arthur C. Clarke

c3e941e

The thing's hollow--it goes on forever--and--oh my God!--

Arthur C. Clarke

e4465a3

There were some things that only time could cure. Evil men could be destroyed, but nothing could be done with good men who were deluded.

Arthur C. Clarke

f9951fc

Silk is a fine, delicate, soft, illuminating, beautiful substance. But you can never rip it! If a man takes this tender silk and attempts to tear it, and cannot tear it, is he in his right mind to say "This silk is fake! I thought it was soft, I thought it was delicate, but look, I cannot even tear it" ? Surely, this man is not in his right mind! The silk is not fake! This silk is 100% real. It's the man who is stupid!

delicate fake gentle genuine inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes parable parables real silk soft strength strength-of-a-woman stupidity stupidity-of-man wisdom wisdom-quotes

C. JoyBell C.

6654e54

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.

discipline

John C. Maxwell

f5c7a0b

Dont ever be impressed with goal setting; be impressed with goal getting. Reaching new goals and moving to a higher level of performance always requires change, and change feels awkward. But take comfort in the knowledge that if a change doesn't feel uncomfortable, then it's propably not really a change.

John C. Maxwell

f6ea504

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Arthur C. Clarke

17a276f

Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets. No one ever demonstrated, so far as I am aware, the nonexistence of Zeus or Thor, but they have few followers now.

science

Arthur C. Clarke

f0cbe4e

Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy--of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.

Arthur C. Clarke

83ec896

science fiction is something that happen - but usually you wouldn't want it to. Fantasy is something that happen - though often you only wish that it could.

science-fiction

Arthur C. Clarke

5571771

Happiness simply cannot be relied upon as a measure of success.

success

John C. Maxwell

a1f5fbd

Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

incompetence social

Arthur C. Clarke

ba3dc91

If you want to teach your children that they are the tools of God, you had better not teach them that they are God's rifles, or we will have to stand firmly opposed to you: your doctrine has no glory, no special rights, no intrinsic and inalienable merit. If you insist on teaching your children false-hoods--that the Earth is flat, that "Man" is not a product of evolution by natural selection--then you must expect, at the very least, that th..

religion science

Daniel C. Dennett

0434133

Whether we are based on carbon or on silicon makes no fundamental difference; we should each be treated with appropriate respect.

computers diversity robots

Arthur C. Clarke

1775558

Every living thing is, from the cosmic perspective, incredibly lucky simply to be alive. Most, 90 percent and more, of all the organisms that have ever lived have died without viable offspring, but not a single one of your ancestors, going back to the dawn of life on Earth, suffered that normal misfortune. You spring from an unbroken line of winners going back millions of generations, and those winners were, in every generation, the luckies..

Daniel C. Dennett

755037d

There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. --Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995

science

Daniel C. Dennett

60ba5b9

If I know better than you know what I am up to, it is only because I spend more time with myself than you do.

free-will unconscious

Daniel C. Dennett

61f8ea6

Now I understand," said the last man."

Arthur C. Clarke

f388450

If a little kid ever asks you just why the sky is blue, you look him or her right in the eye and say, "It's because of quantum effects involving Rayleigh scattering combined with a lack of violet photon receptors in our retinae." --

rayleigh sky

Philip C. Plait

58251b1

Small disciplines repeated with consistency every day lead to great achievements gained slowly over time.

discipline growth-process

John C. Maxwell

197b6e3

Open the pod bay doors, Hal.

Arthur C. Clarke

18d4211

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

magic possibility science technology

Arthur C. Clarke

52e24c5

A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential

John C. Maxwell

0cac5ea

Then he [The Star Child] waited, marshaling his thoughts and brooding over his still untested powers. For though he was master of the world, he was not quite sure what to do next. But he would think of something.

Arthur C. Clarke

ea2c459

the newspapers of Utopia, he had long ago decided, would be terribly dull.

psychology

Arthur C. Clarke

e8343a1

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

John C. Maxwell

d9ad577

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of all Utopias--boredom.

utopian utopias

Arthur C. Clarke

e0bc22b

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

mistakes wise

John C. Maxwell

0f7ef93

Humor was the enemy of desire.

Arthur C. Clarke

827cd6f

When in doubt, say nothing and move on.

Arthur C. Clarke

f7d31a5

In this single galaxy of ours there are eighty-seven thousand million suns. [...] In challenging it, you would be like ants attempting to label and classify all the grains of sand in all the deserts of the world. [...] It is a bitter thought, but you must face it. The planets you may one day possess. But the stars are not for man.

science space

Arthur C. Clarke