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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We will always have war until there is enough of every essential to support all lives everywhere around earth.
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The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal.
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The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.
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The measure of action is the sentiment from which it proceeds. The greatest action may easily be one of the most private circumstance.
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Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.
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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.
