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.

  

  Zachary Quinto
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• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
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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.

  

  Jack Steinberger
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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
  • Long
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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.

  

  T. S. Eliot
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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
  • Great
  • Matter
  • Authority

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

  

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

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Good
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• I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • God
  • Earth
  • Religion

• If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • God
  • Eat
  • Sugar

• 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
  • Music
  • Different
  • Real

• 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
  • Good
  • Remember
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• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• 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.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• Every world leader is trying to figure out who Mr. Trump is, especially if he's elected president, and they want to know what his foreign policies would be. Russia is no exception.

  

  Dmitri Alperovitch
  • World
  • Trying
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• In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Up
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• What disturbs and depresses young people is the hunt for happiness on the firm assumption that it must be met with in life. From this arises constantly deluded hope and so also dissatisfaction. Deceptive images of a vague happiness hover before us in our dreams, and we search in vain for their original. Much would have been gained if, through timely advice and instruction, young people could have had eradicated from their minds the erroneous notion that the world has a great deal to offer them.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Dreams

• We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Christian
  • Judge
  • Humility

• The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hope
  • Christian
  • Sorrow

• 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.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Christian
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  • Errors