Sigmund Brouwer Quotes

#1. People into hard sciences, neurophysiology, often ignore a core philosophical question: 'What is the relationship between our unique, inner experience of conscious awareness and material substance?' The answer is: We don't know, and some people are so terrified to say, 'I don't know.'

Raymond Moody

#2. Yet truth is a diamond; even mishandles, smeared with grease, or buried in mud, it cannot be marred and waits for one with a cloth to polish it clean.

Sigmund Brouwer

#3. I was counsel on the full veterans committee, the first Vietnam veteran to serve as a full-committee counsel in Congress. It stunned me that there was a 600,000-case backlog of claims. During my time in the Senate, it became 900,000.

Jim Webb

#4. If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher.

Epictetus

#5. Our greatest temptations generally arise from the areas closest to our hearts.

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#6. True men of this world do not wish. They change that which they know can be changed, they accept what cannot, and they always strive for the wisdom to know the difference.

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#7. We mourn His suffering when, instead, we should mourn the reason He suffered.

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#8. It's the ultimate goal every day you wake up, to be happy. At the end of the week, you want to be happy. Happy in love, happy in work, happy in life, happy with yourself. It's pretty simple.

Pierce Brosnan

#9. Life is difficult more often that it is not. To live means to face difficulties. It's what you learn from those difficulties that matters.

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#10. Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.

Sophocles

#11. Are you insane? You still not convinced that chances are better with me?

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#12. I'd imagine a great date would be to go skiing. Imagine going skiing. Go ski with someone, if they can ski.

Douglas Booth

#13. I wouldn't want to criticise someone like Charlotte Church because she has done fantastically well, but personally I've always cared about the long term.

Lesley Garrett

#14. I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.

Ronald D. Moore

#15. For each of us, time is a thief of flory. What give meaning to our lives and deaths is love and hope, if we are willing to share and accept

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#16. Good wine needs neither bush nor preface to make it welcome. And they drank the red wine through the helmet barr'd.

Walter Scott

#17. To set us on the right course we need to create more opportunities for trade, particularly in developing countries, and we need to adjust global trade rules to better meet the needs of entrepreneurs in the 21st century,

Pascal Lamy

#18. Think, guys. What was strange about the story Uncle Goerge told us?"
"That a woman outsmarted the men", Mike said. For which he received a scowl that did a thunderstorm justice.

Sigmund Brouwer