C. S. Lewis Quotes

God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

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• I accidentally entered a youth pageant when I was 14. That's like a beauty pageant, but without the beauty. It was terrible.

  

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• Love shouldn't be about jealousy or anything like that. It should be about commitment and being able to trust that person. If you can't have that from the get-go, there's a problem.

  

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• Five sets is a kind of lottery. Anything can happen.

  

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• There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.

  

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• Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.

  

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• There's been a gap between perception and reality, the perception being that California is on the cutting edge of gun safety legislation when, in fact, there are a number of areas where we have fallen behind.

  

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• If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.

  

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• I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.

  

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• I need to have proper equipment when I work out, and the Nike Frees are light, comfortable, and great for training. I also usually bring a short-sleeve or long-sleeve compression shirt and a pair of shorts.

  

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• The great fun for me is these collaborators. I'm nothing by myself. Being with these people, whether it's the 'Homeland' cast or stage collaborators, they make you everything you are. They make you come to work. They make you be alive.

  

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• Men create the gods in their own image.

  

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• No industry in living memory has collapsed faster than daily print journalism.

  

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• Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

  

  Orrin Hatch
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• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

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• I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.

  

  Nathan Gamble
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• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
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• If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• For about three years I was performing at one bar in East Los Angeles that was like a mean dive bar. You're in there performing for drunks or bikers, not the most flattering people. I think it helped build my confidence, because you have to get their attention, then make them laugh.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
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• Some people go through life searching and never find their soul mates. They never do. You and I did, we just happened to have them for a shorter period of time. It's sad, but it's life.

  

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• Australia is breathtakingly beautiful, and I can't wait to visit again.

  

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• Just look at Andy Roddick. He has the biggest serve on the men's tour and he's not the No. 1 because other parts of his game are not so good. I think it's more important to have the desire and the other parts of your game.

  

  Elena Dementieva
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• God, in the end, gives people what they most want, including freedom from himself. What could be more fair?

  

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