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?
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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Voice comes to you through a spell, a trance. The best voices are not you... they're a little away from you.
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Even when EPA subjects its science to peer review, the agency often stacks the deck of supposedly independent advisory panels by including members who are EPA grant recipients.
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I want people to feel happy when they wear my shoes.
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Steel your sensibilities, so that life shall hurt you as little as possible.
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Those who enter to buy, support me. Those who come to flatter, please me. Those who complain, teach me how I may please others so that more will come. Those only hurt me who are displeased but do not complain. They refuse me permission to correct my errors and thus improve my service.
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I'm heavier, but with muscle rather than flab. It's a massive difference. It means I don't get as tired sometimes and it means that I'm hitting the ball a lot farther, about 15 yards more with my driver.
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The deadliest bullshit is odorless, and transparent.
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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?
