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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The one self-knowledge worth having is to know one's own mind.
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No matter how big you are in the business, at the end of the day it's still work.
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I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil.
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more... I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
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Fuel conservation is a necessity, and I have to be the first person to set the example.
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The restructuring theme can be of various kinds. Some amount of debt gets serviced out of cash flows, some gets back-ended and resolved with sale of non-core assets of the company, and some debt gets converted into equity which might today look like a haircut.
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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.
