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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Look for your choices, pick the best one, then go with it.
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Good Charlotte fit in a lot of different genres - it's one of the coolest things our band has been able to do.
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I didn't come to Washington to fight against my Republican colleagues, or even against my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. I came to Washington to fight for the values that make our country unique - for the economic freedom that gives life to the American Dream.
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To be stuck with that Kardashian label, that was so hurtful to me and to my career. I probably realized that too late - not that it would've affected my decisions in terms of who I dated, but it would've affected my decision to appear on the show.
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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?
