C. S. Lewis Quotes
The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Around 14, I was turned on to Shania, Reba, Merle Haggard, Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood... and I've followed it ever since.
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It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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Western man is schizophrenic.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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Women, you need to understand something. Men are not as dumb as you think they are.
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Cancer is the ultimate nemesis that hangs in the balance for one in three women and one in two men in their lifetime.
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If God had made a perfect world, it would be a magic trick, not creation, with no meaning or place for us to learn and create. Mankind is not yet ready for a perfect world. We do not know how to appreciate perfection.
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A successful economy depends on the proliferation of the rich, on creating a large class of risk-taking men who are willing to shun the easy channels of a comfortable life in order to create new enterprise, win huge profits, and invest them again.
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The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis
