C. S. Lewis Quotes
An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
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I'm typically single. I'm the girl who - I call it girl-next-door-itis - the hot guy is friends with and gets all his relationship advice from but never considers dating.
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Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.
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You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.
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Things are never perfect, so I never get too high about things, or get too down about things anymore.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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I am not sad, but I am melancholic. When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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We glorify the Holy Ghost together with the Father and the Son, from the conviction that He is not separated from the Divine Nature; for that which is foreign by nature does not share in the same honors.
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I grew up being terrified of my parents, particularly my father figures.
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It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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I have Aboriginal roots on my father's side, and have always indentified with that spirit. I feel a lot of my music comes from that place.
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The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
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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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My parents' selfless affection and dedication nourished and prepared me to receive the love of my guru or spiritual father, Swami Prabhupada. My parents prepared the soil in which my guru sowed the seeds of his compassion.
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My father came from nothing, so he believed that people could do anything if they worked hard enough. I think he liked that I chose to be an actor. Both he and my mom were totally supportive.
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I think credibility, irrespective of what you do, if you are in public life, then it is important.
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The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.
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I was a very efficient doctor. I would get rewarded with a lot more patients. By the end of my medical career, I had maybe 2,000 patients in my practice.
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But the same intelligence compels Germany to practise the same policy.
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An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. From his own father, he said, he first learned that Fatherhood must be at the core of the universe. [speaking of George MacDonald]
