C. S. Lewis Quotes
You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
Quotes to Explore
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Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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The bottom line is, when you're in the Senate, you have more of a voice in the beginning than a new House member.
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Catalytic oxidation in living substances rests upon change of valency in an iron compound which is the respiratory oxygen-transferring ferment.
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I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.
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I have been blessed with friends who do things rather than buy things: friends who will change books at the library, take a bag of your old clothes to a thrift store, bring you cuttings and plant them in a window box, fill the bird feeder in your garden when you can't get out.
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I love and really respect strong women. I'm obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.
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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do.
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I always love China, especially the old China.
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The best thing about the iPhone is this that tells me where I am all the time. There's never a need to feel lost anymore.
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A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.
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I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.
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When you live in a community where people know you, it makes you want to be good and decent. It's a strong influence.
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
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I grew up on a dairy and beef farm.
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Even the devil gives some justice to his victims, when they're beyond all help.
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The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
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'You can afford me,' said Jane. 'I’m cheap and you’re rich.'
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The Protestant Spirit of Luther's Version. Dr. Emser, one of the most learned opponents of the Reformation, singled out in Luther's New Testament several hundred linguistic blunders and heretical falsifications.
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Stupidity is an elemental force for which no earthquake is a match.
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When the kids were young, they just wanted to be around us. We were units of comfort and support. As they get older, we work the turnstile, helping the exasperated customer pass whatever temporary obstacle is keeping them from their next exciting thing. Now we're the ones who just like having them in the room.
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American inventiveness and the desire to build developed because we were guaranteed the right to own our success.
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You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.
