C. S. Lewis Quotes
We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
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The cow is of the bovine ilk; one end is moo, the other milk.
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I believe the question now is: who murdered my mother?
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Black is not a color.
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Every bad precedent originated as a justifiable measure.
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The quality of life is so much higher anyplace you can ski in the morning and surf in the evening - there's something to be said for that.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
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I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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Keep your head up and be patient.
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College kids want to be coached. They want to be taught. They might resist it a little bit early on, but the more you give, the more you get back.
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I believe that one of the secret engines that allows cinema to work, and have the marvelous power over us that it does, is the fact that for thousands of years we have spent eight hours every night in a 'cinematic' dream-state, and so are familiar with this version of reality.
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You never really know a man until you have divorced him.
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The Confederacy stands for slavery and the Union for freedom.
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Instead of understanding the crisis facing the country and helping the country, the opposition wants to weaken the country by its deeds.
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Its like Dr. Doolittle in this fucking house here.
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117: It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. What fun is there to making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and, learning to be self-critical?
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Your close men friends should be willing to challenge your mediocrity by suggesting a concrete action you can perform that will pop you out of your rut, one way or the other. And you must be willing to offer them your brutal honesty, in the same way, if you are all to grow.
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We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition.
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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.
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The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.
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They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.
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We are not merely imperfect creatures who must be improved; we are rebels who must lay down our arms.
