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
Quotes to Explore
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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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All I do is track a profane route to something (I hope) profound. Like swimming a river of shit for a kiss.
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I bought my first electric car in 1970. Its top speed was 15 mph and it had just a 15 mile range - it was essentially a golf cart with a windshield wiper and a horn.
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Saltwater fishing is only for the strong man with a hard stomach. It's like sex after lunch.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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Human opinions are formed by accident and hardened by repetition. We cling to acquired opinions only because they give the illusion of being wise opinions. This creates division and hostility between people.
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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
