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Music is not math. It`s science. You keep mixing the stuff up until it blows up on you, or it becomes this incredible potion.
Sometimes in football you have to hold your hand up and say, yeah, they`re better than us.
The energy you give off is the energy you receive. I really think that, so I`m always myself - jumping, dancing, singing around, trying to cheer everybody up.
If something happened where I couldn`t write music anymore, it would kill me. It`s not just a job. It`s not just a hobby. It`s why I get up in the morning.
The one who forgives never brings up the past to that person`s face. When you forgive, it`s like it never happened. True forgiveness is complete and total.
From the sun coming up to the sun going down
Every breath we breathe in and breathe out
Blessings are given as we are living for Jesus
He`s the beginning and He is the end
He will be faithful again and again
We give Him praise for all the ways He loves us.
Everyone falls down. What matters is that you pick yourself up and keep going.
Most men have an insecurity of some sort. But we`re brought up to believe that we can`t show them.
It`s fun to know what I want to do - you know, when I grow up. I have friends who say, "Oh, maybe I`ll be an astronaut or whatever." But it`s cool to want to do this forever.
In the mountains, we see a valley covered by a sea of white clouds. The surface of the clouds gleams, immaculate. We start to walk toward the valley. The air becomes more humid, then less clear; the sky is no longer blue. We find ourselves in a fog. Where did the well-defined surface of the clouds go? It vanished. Its disappearance is gradual; there is no surface that separates the fog from the sparse air of the heights. Was it an illusion? No, it was a view from afar. Come to think of it, it`s like this with all surfaces. This dense marble table would look like a fog if I were shrunk to a small enough, atomic scale. Everything in the world becomes blurred when seen close up. Where exactly does the mountain end and where do the plains begin? Where does the savannah begin and the desert end? We cut the world into large slices. We think of it in terms of concepts that are meaningful for us, that emerge at a certain scale.
A person`s mental activities are entirely due to the behaviour of nerve cells, glial cells, and the atoms, ions, and molecules that make them up and influence them.
In the history of science, ever since the famous trial of Galileo, it has repeatedly been claimed that scientific truth cannot be reconciled with the religious interpretation of the world. Although I an now convinced that scientific truth is unassailable in its own field, I have never found it possible to dismiss the content of religious thinking as simply part of an outmoded phase in the consciousness of mankind, a part we shall have to give up from now on, Thus in the course of my life I have repeatedly been compelled to ponder on the relationship of these two regions of though, for I have never been able to doubt the reality of that to which they point.