C. S. Lewis Quotes
For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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Despite the obvious benefits, many Americans do not like Texas. Some even say they despise Texas, and make no secret of their feelings.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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What I'm concerned about is making sure that every single time somebody who grew up with us goes off to a different platform or a different device, we're going to be there with a Univision-branded product of some kind.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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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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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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God gave women intuition and femininity. Used properly, the combination easily jumbles the brain of any man I've ever met.
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I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
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There's too many people in seats of power who just haven't got a clue what they're doing. They're bean counters, and it just pisses me off because consequently our kids go to see crap movies.
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into.
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Building a nation calls us to recognize that we must constantly relate to others, rejecting a mindset of hostility in order to adopt one of reciprocal subsidiarity, in a constant effort to do our best. I am confident that we can do this.
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For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please.
