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David Papineau

"Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the 'causal completeness of physics' - every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This leaves no room for non-physical things to make a causal difference to physical effects. But it would be absurd to deny that thoughts and feelings (and population movements and economic depressions . . .) cause physical effects. So they must be physical things."

Source : "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

David Papineau

#Differences Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Events Quotes

“I have noticed a common denominator among my smart and successful single friends, who tend to over-analyze and underestimate the opposite sex far more than their peers.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Once the flames begin to catch the wind will blow it higher, oh Biko, Biko.”
“The short story is at an advantage over the novel, and can claim its nearer kinship to poetry, because it must be more concentrated, can be more visionary, and is not weighed down (as the novel is bound to be) by facts, explanation, or analysis. I do not mean to say that the short story is by any means exempt from the laws of narrative: it must observe them, but on its own terms.”
“Change is the principal feature of our age and literature should explore how people deal with it. The best science fiction does that, head-on.”
“If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so long, I'd have said it was impossible, that it was crazy that that could happen in my life, so I'm happy to be here. To be able to go out on stage every day.”
“she was justâ€¦beaming at me, and I thought sheâ€™d won the lottery or something, her smile was that big. I asked what happened, and she saidâ€¦â€ Park swallowed again. â€œShe said, â€˜Youâ€™re here.â€â€™ He blinked at Tess. â€œâ€˜Youâ€™re here.â€™ Thatâ€™s all it was. That big goofy smile just because I was there. Nobody ever smiled like that at me before.”
“In 1964, when Lee Iacocca said, 'Shelby, I want you to make a sports car out of the Mustang,' the first thing I said was, 'Lee, you can't make a race horse out of a mule. I don't want to do it.' He said, 'I didn't ask you to make it; you work for me.'”
“The Good News does not hinge on words like do or change but on the powerless, irrelevant, and frightening words like belief and faith.”

Source : Mark Galli (2011). “Chaos and Grace: Discovering the Liberating Work of the Holy Spirit”, p.122, Baker Books

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