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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• 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.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
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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.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
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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.

  

  Napoleon Hill
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• I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.

  

  Dan Gilbert
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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.

  

  Jack Schwartz
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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.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
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• When you look at the lyrics of 'Sometimes When We Touch,' it's really very much an adolescent song.

  

  Dan Hill
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• No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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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.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
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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.

  

  Otto Penzler
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• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
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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.

  

  Ed Asner
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• I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.

  

  Matt Besser
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• When people ask me where I get my ideas, I lie. I tell them I draw inspiration from the news, the world, my dreams. Or I joke and say that I steal from other writers. I lie because I don't know where ideas come from, and I'm afraid if I look too hard, they'll stop coming.

  

  Marcus Sakey
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• The old world is dying, but a new world is being born. It generates inspiration from the chaos that beats upon us all. The false grandeur and security, the unfulfilled promises and illusory power, the number of the dead and those about to die, will charge the forces of our courage and determination. The old world will die so that the new world will be born with less sacrifice and agony on the living.

  

  Carlos Bulosan
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• I thought I'd be edgy and dye my hair red. And I dyed my hair, like, Jessica Rabbit red. It kind of allowed me to have this whole new confidence and this whole new swagger and this whole new sense of self. It kind of brought out the inner rock star in me. I had never dyed my hair like that, and no one forgot me after that.

  

  Candice Accola
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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.

  

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