C. S. Lewis Quotes
Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.
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I don't think Adam Sandler or Will Ferrell fear competition from me in their arena.
Viggo Mortensen
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
Edmund Burke
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
Ramakrishna
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.
J. J. Abrams
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
Samuel Johnson
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Where love is, there God is also.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
Zach LaVine
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Sam Levenson
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
Larry David
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I founded Camellia Network with my dear friend Isis Dallis Keigwin. The mission of our organization is to create a national network that connects every youth aging out of foster care to the critical resources, opportunities, and support they need to thrive in adulthood.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
Vincent Cassel
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz
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I'm a darned good listener.
Naomi Judd
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
Taraji P. Henson
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
Ranbir Kapoor
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'Is this being in love?' he suddenly wondered? It was nothing like the ballads he had heard sung-this was more irritating than uplifting.
Tad Williams
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
Douglas Adams
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
Stevie Wonder
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It's the first time that I've ever had an art show based on a film, but it's a photography collage.
Val Kilmer
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I think I am a writer, but professionally I feel drawn to and suited for directing.
Mary Stuart Masterson
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Believing things on authority only means believing them because you have been told them by someone you think trustworthy. Ninety-nine per cent of the things you believe are believed on authority... Every historical event in the world is believed on authority. None of us has seen the Norman Conquest or the defeat of the Armada.
C. S. Lewis