C. S. Lewis Quotes
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
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Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an anonymous particle of the London I already loved.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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A society of 'children first' is a society that nurtures smiling faces in everyone.
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Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
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Women have to be active listeners and interrupters - but when you interrupt, you have to know what you are talking about.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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We'd be doing parkour on my high school roof; we'd get in trouble. But I was never a reckless kid.
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I was always the smallest role in community theater and school plays. I always had two lines - I was the kid that came on stage and said one thing and then left, and that was my part for the play.
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For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.
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My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts.
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Hugs are helpful, especially when women step out into a mostly male political world. Emotional support, at critical moments, enables women to stay in the race.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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Right out of high school I never had the fear of getting beat, which is how most people lose.
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Of course, when you're a parent, that's your paramount concern, for your children, and there were some very credible and frightening threats, and the agency declined to provide any security, and it felt like a betrayal all over again. It was really painful.
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Women always try to see the one good part of The Weird Guy because the dating landscape is so bleak. Women will say, 'He's very odd, but he likes to cook. He's creepy, but he makes good pancakes!'
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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As soon as science has solved one problem, new ones arise. This is the essence of science, and it applies, of course, also to the field of essential oils.
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I've definitely, you know, been with women. And I've had great relationships with them where I was definitely in love. It's just I grew to a point where deep inside I knew that I could never truly have a relationship with a woman. I don't know if they ever suspected. It was never brought up.
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A man must be perfectly crazy who, where there is tolerable security, does not employ all the stock which he commands,...
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Israel is not Vegas, and it will not be.
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The armoury of having any academic education does not necessarily set you up for being a good or better actor.
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In business it's about people. It's about relationships.
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Soccer is the most widely played sport in the U.S.
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Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines.
