C. S. Lewis Quotes
If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.
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As every scuba diver knows, panic is your worst enemy: when it hits, your mind starts to thrash and you are likely to do something really stupid and self-destructive.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
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The Sunday School teacher talked too much in the way our grade school teacher used to when she told us about George Washington. Pleasant, pretty stories, but not true.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Guys like Clyde McPhatter used to sing their tail ends off!
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I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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Pure geometrical regularity gives a certain pleasure to men troubled by the obscurity of outside appearance. The geometrical line is something absolutely distinct from the messiness, the confusion, and the accidental details of existing things.
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Being young and being first-round picks and everything, people look up to you and look for you to lead. It's something Brett and I are able to do, and we can use each other to help each other out.
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We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex.
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I'm outspoken and I'm headstrong.
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He was the tallest, thinnest, weariest boy I had ever seen in my life. He was brilliant. He had gorgeous brown eyes, and he had only two suits. He was completely unhappy, and I didn't know why.
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If you live for the next world, you get this one in the deal; but if you live only for this world, you lose them both.
