"Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does."

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Source : David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.5, Oxford University Press

David Chalmers

#Giving Quotes #Doe Quotes #Rich Quotes

“Decades of Saddamâ€™s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.”
“Still photographs often differ from life more by their silence than by the immobility of their subjects. Landscape pictures tend to converge with life, however, on summer nights, when the sounds outside, after we call in children and close garage doors, are small - the whir of moths, the snap of a stick.”
“At the bottom of the heart of every human being, from earliest infancy until the tomb, there is something that goes on indomitably expecting, in the teeth of all experience of crimes committed, suffered, and witnessed, that good and not evil will be done”
“If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”
“Sometimes you get more creativity when you're in a box than when you can do anything. In really difficult situations, sometimes, you get the most interesting thinking.”
“Don't you like when the winter's gone, And all of a sudden it starts gettin' warm? The trees and the grass start lookin' fresh, And the sun and sky be lookin' their best...”

Source : Song: Spring Again, Album: The Biz Never Sleeps, 1989
“It may be a cliche, but it's true - the build-up to Christmas is so much more pleasurable than the actual day itself.”

Source : "Its a rat trap" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. December 12, 2003.

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