C. S. Lewis Quotes
A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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Islam has shown two faces to the Jews, one benevolent, one less so.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.
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Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
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Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?
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Democracy is our most valuable possession. Upholding it is our duty and our responsibility. This means a continuous, decisive and self-confident argument; it means effort and endeavor to reach compromise and long-lasting consensus. These form the cornerstones of the only form of political system that can guarantee freedom.
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I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.
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Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.
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A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
