C. S. Lewis Quotes
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I think having a great idea is vastly overrated. I know it sounds kind of crazy and counterintuitive. I don't think it matters what the idea is, almost. You need great execution.
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I try to greet my friends with a drink in my hand, a warm smile on my face, and great music in the background, because that's what gets a dinner party off to a fun start.
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My brother Joseph, who is 14 years older than me, was already on his national military compulsory service when I was 4 years old, the age from which I remember myself.
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The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
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In the United States we have the great Harvard Business School, but America is the country with the greatest debt in the world.
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I am from the age of magazines, so the Internet is terrifying to me. But I am learning.
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We're more interested in someone writing a really great answer that's going to be read by thousands or tens of thousands of people over the next few years as it stays on Quora and as it gets distributed on the Internet.
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To be shapely when you're in the seventh grade is not exactly what everyone's looking for, or they weren't then, as someone was telling me the other day. now, that's like a really great thing to do, to be, but then it wasn't.
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Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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My coaches were great. My mom and dad. My dad never missed a wrestling meet.
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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Fage does not make great yogurt.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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If you sing beautifully about nothing, no one will listen. If you sing badly about great stuff, no one will listen. Ideas are everywhere, but my theory is that a writer doesn't just think of an idea: they perform them.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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That's the great thing about G.I. Joe: it's essentially superheroes, but it's military based - and it's based in reality.
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I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.
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Living in the age of AIDS is one thing. Dying in it is another.
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I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success.
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I only am in this business because I enjoy it. I think that is the only way to be in the business.
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A library is a palace of dreams.
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How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
