C. S. Lewis Quotes
If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
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I could work in the shower if I had plastic paper.
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Never again! I can see no reason for marriage - ever at all. I've had it. Three times is enough.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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It's different from Liverpool. Boston seems to be a friendly place.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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I'm not doing no more 'Flavor of Loves.' I'm trying to grow. I don't want to stay on the same page. You can't stay on the same page in order to get to the next chap.
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Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.
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I cook chicken for a living.
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'What can your kids teach you?' Well, I believe something different about kids. We don't own them, they have their own knowledge. From the start you have to make the choice to listen.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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You have to be able to unleash your inner goofball with me.
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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.
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It's not in my nature to be too literal.
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I object to several popular ideas. I don't think anyone's work is reductive. The most the term can mean is that new work doesn't have what the old work had. Its not so definitive that a certain kind of form is missing; a description and discussion of the kind present is pretty definitive.
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I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.
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Just like mutations to DNA in biological organisms allow for evolution through natural selection, forking lets us run multiple experiments in parallel where the strongest versions survive.
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What is said in James 2:14 ff. is like a two-coupon train or bus ticket. One coupon says, "Not good if detached" and the other says, "Not good for passage". Works are not good for passage; but faith detached from works is not saving faith.
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If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary.
