C. S. Lewis Quotes
A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
Quotes to Explore
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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The idea that computers can ever replace teachers and schools reveals a deep lack of understanding about the role leadership plays in student success.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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My family are huge 'Star Wars' fans.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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My dad grew up wrestling. He knew Ken Shamrock, and I didn't know who he was at the time. So, he found out that Shamrock was in a gym in Reno, and he wanted me to go try a class with him. I tried it and fell in love the first day. Ken told me that I had potential in this sport, and he's the reason I kept at it.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
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You want to help gay kids, you have to reach them in middle school and high school, when they're being bullied.
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If you really want to see the face of war, see the faces of survivors.
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Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I don't know. I don't go around looking at my pictures. I sometimes think I'm a mechanic. I just take pictures. When the time comes, for whatever reason, I get involved in editing and getting some prints made and stuff. There are things that interest me. But I don't really mull over them a lot.
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I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it's much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
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Why? Surely they can find other men.
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By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause they're burned, straight to the fireplace where they belong.
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A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems.
