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.
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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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When I started law school I was shocked to learn that our legal system traditionally had the man as the head and master of the family. As late as the '70s and '80s when we were fighting for the Equal Rights Amendment, states like Louisiana still had a head and master law.
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Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
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My mom always told me, 'You're very smart; you're very funny.' She never told me, 'You're very beautiful.'
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We have a small lead over Werder Bremen but things can change quickly. We were lucky in this game.
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Time is but a mode of thought
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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
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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.
