C. S. Lewis Quotes
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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The inspections started in 1991, right after the Gulf War. One of the conditions for the ceasefire was that Iraq had to do away with all of its weapons of mass destruction - biological, chemical and nuclear weapons and long-range missiles.
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Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.
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The way children are taught football doesn't encourage skill; the focus is on other areas.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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I never come away from a film thinking I nailed it.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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Our vision and commitment is towards the country's progress, its place in the world and the happiness of its people.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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In 2007, everything changed with the iPhone. As crippled as that first model now seems, with its lack of apps and glacial cellular connectivity, the iPhone was a practical, useful, self-contained computer a child could understand. It was an information appliance.
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I thought Obama ran the best campaign I have ever known - disciplined, well organised, very, very good. I was very impressed.
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I have a wonderful husband, and we have had a great life.
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My parents told me either I choose badminton, or school has to make the best of me.
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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When you make your first film at 47 and anybody but your mother goes to see it, to me, that's a miracle.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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There's this tendency to be like, 'Where's the negative stuff? How valid is the criticism?' But honestly, what people think of me is none of my business. If I live on the Internet looking for public approval, I'm going to be miserable.
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Ted Kennedy is the only person alive who might know more than we do about Chappaquiddick, and he may not.
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I have resisted the term sociolinguistics for many years, since it implies that there can be a successful linguistic theory or practice which is not social.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
