C. S. Lewis Quotes
God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
Quotes to Explore
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
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If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.
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What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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Throughout history, the only way to secure a throne has been with a phalanx of children - nine for Victoria, 13 for George III.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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Man may trust man, Prince Elric, but perhaps we'll never have a truly sane world until men learn to trust mankind. That would mean the death of magic, I think.
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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
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God has landed on this enemy-occupied world in human form...The perfect surrender and humiliation was undergone by Christ: perfect because He was God, surrender and humiliation because He was man.
