C. S. Lewis Quotes
Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I remember once I read a book on mental illness and there was a nurse that had gotten sick. Do you know what she died from? From worrying about the mental patients not being able to get their food. She became a mental patient.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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My father's peripatetic career also gave me critical perspective when it came to my own career choices.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know what the target is.
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Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
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I'd rather stay out of the limelight until I've done something I feel proud of.
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In this post 9-11 world we live in, it is critical we take steps to improve the safety and security of the Trucking Industry which has proven to be our most mobile and flexible mode of transporting goods.
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I live for the text. It's my job.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity - those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.
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There is no such thing as a natural death: nothing that happens to a man is ever natural, since his presence calls the world into question. All men must die: but for every man his death is an accident and, even if he knows it and consents to it, an unjustifiable violation.
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The whole duty of man is summed up in obedience to God's will.
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Sometimes it's good to leave the past in the past.
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Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger.
