C. S. Lewis Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.
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Social Security has never failed to pay promised benefits, and Democrats will fight to make sure that Republicans do not turn a guaranteed benefit into a guaranteed gamble.
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It seemed to me that the real philosophical breakthroughs of the 20th century were in terms of the understanding of language. What is language? Where does it come from, how does it work, what does it do?
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As I'm writing, certain things become clear to me and certain things begin to feel right and make sense. The pieces start to fall into place.
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All dictators, the rich and famous, to the lowest security guard who holds a gun, easily forget that power is transitory.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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So I didn't have anything to do with picking the songs, but I got to musically take them in places I thought might be interesting, so it was a real neat collaboration among the three of us.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things.
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I'm a national security liberal, which I tell people because it's meant to sound absurd.
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My camps are always ten weeks. That's what makes me comfortable.
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Gentrification always makes me laugh. People complain about traffic. Live in Atlanta! You can't have it both ways; you can't live in an incredible city and not expect it to get congested.
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I think becoming a scientist is the product of parents who gave me enormous opportunities to master nature.
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It is always difficult to escape from youth; its hopefulness, its optimistic belief in the privileges of desire, its despair, and its sense of outrage and injustice at disappointment, all these spring on a man inflicting indelicate agony when he is no longer prepared.
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The whole apparatus of using loyalty-security hearings for working off personal political spite has been firmly established as a part of our "way of life" and I do not see anything happening yet to loosen the hold of this machinery on us.
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Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means.
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Reactive people... are often affected by their physical environment. They find external sources to blame for their behavior.
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The purpose of punishment is to improve those who do the punishing--that is the final recourse of those who support punishment.
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Real joy seems to me almost as unlike security or prosperity as it is unlike agony.
