C. S. Lewis Quotes
When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
Quotes to Explore
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate, and you could open their eyes.
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The German national character is a favorite subject of character experts, probably because the less mature a nation, the more she is an object of criticism and not of history.
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Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
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I'm an all-or-nothing person.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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With movies, you can do a lot more roles a lot faster. My favorite thing about acting is taking on new characters. It's fun switching it up at times. No matter what, I feel so honored and blessed to be 16 and already living my dream. It's really special.
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I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.
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Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.
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I hope in the end there will be a solution for the world, because we have advanced in so many ways, and still the world has so many different problems.
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When I have learned to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.
