C. S. Lewis Quotes
Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
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Sooner or later the space program will need to save us by detecting and deflecting an incoming asteroid.
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Live TV would terrify anybody.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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Jim Thompson understood something about the serial killer before the psychology caught up to it, which is that they are detached to it and they do want to get caught.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but damaging to the financial system, so science must break the tyranny of the luxury journals. The result will be better research that better serves science and society.
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I wanted to greet people in Telugu, so I asked someone how to say 'How are you' in Telugu. In fact, I instructed my entire staff to speak to me only in Telugu. So, there were times when I would ask them to translate certain words for me in Hindi, but the effort paid off.
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I've always had a passion for music, but I never saw me as a musician for a living. I never thought that I could make a living. It never dawned on me.
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All my fiction starts from a feeling of unique perception, the pressure of a secret, a story that needs to be told.
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'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
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Don't worry about Yemen. Yemen started in peace, and it will end its revolution in peace, and it will start its new civil state with peace.
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I had a terrible bout of acne after I turned 30.
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The thing about a good podcast is you have to have a good host. If you don't have a compelling host then you have nothing.
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When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life.
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I normally stay away from horror films; I tend to do light and happy roles.
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Querida, it's alright," he said. "No one has hurt me in years." "Hey, you're supposed to be my brother," I said, trying to joke. "Brother's don't hold their sisters' hands or call them querida." Seb smiled, his hazel eyes starting to dance. "Yes, they do," he said. "This happens all the time." "Well I guess things are different in Mexico then," I said. "Because in America, no way. And I'm an American." "But you're in Mexico now," he pointed out. "Right. And you're saying here, boys holds hands with their sisters and call them sweetheart." "Oh yes. We're very friendly, we Mexicans.
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Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.
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Putin could no more survive returning Crimea to Ukraine than Bibi Netanyahu could survive giving East Jerusalem back to Jordan.
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You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.
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Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?
