C. S. Lewis Quotes
The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
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In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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I just respect Kanye as an artist.
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I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
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The gruesomeness of 'Death Line' was an absolute necessity for me to bring up the political content of the film. I wanted to show how devastating class distinction could be.
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I hope young athletes can imitate my good side only, not the bad side.
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In the fallen there is danger of pride and vainglory, since they prefer their own judgment to the judgment of everyone else, usurping what is not their own by setting themselves up as judges in their own cause when the rightful judge is their superior.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I'm not very bright about money. I'm not domestic either. If I don't learn how to cook, maybe I won't have to.
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'Harry!' Boutin said. 'Nice guy. Didn’t know he was that smart. He hid it well.'
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One touch of nature makes the whole world tin.
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If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, the entire evening sky would be in the palm of my hand.
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[The error in the teaching of mathematics is that] mathematics is expected either to be immediately attractive to students on its own merits or to be accepted by students solely on the basis of the teacher's assurance that it will be helpful in later life. [And yet,] mathematlcs is the key to understanding and mastering our physical, social and biological worlds.
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
