C. S. Lewis Quotes
If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
Quotes to Explore
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I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I try to shave at night so my skin has a chance to settle by the early morning call-time.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.
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'Love Letter' reminds me of 'Chocolate Factory' and 'Happy People.' It's a little bit of both of those, yeah. I just wanted it to be classy, man. And romantic. And maybe 10 percent sexy.
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I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one?
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When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.
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I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.
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Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
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Space exploration is important research to our economic and national defense, and America's space program is a symbol of our success as a scientifically and technologically advanced nation.
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The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.
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Ego is the greatest hurdle for your ascent. You see that ego is at a place where you have to just cross to go to Sahasrara, and to break Sahasrara is very easy otherwise. But if there is ego, you are already lost in that ego.
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I don't believe for a minute that women really want to be understood by men.
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I feel like my best music is still ahead of me, and I can't wait for everyone to hear it.
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If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them.
