C. S. Lewis Quotes
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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Number 4 should have been number 1. Thanks, Honey.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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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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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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My profession has helped me to grow up.
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I'm a dork!
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I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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The greatest evil which fortune can inflict on men is to endow them with small talents and great ambition.
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I always wanted to be a scientist, I always thought I'd be a scientist, that was the narrative I was carrying around. I worked in a neuroscience lab as an undergraduate and then after, almost five years in total, but I realized I just wasn't good at science. I didn't have the discipline for it.
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I live right under the Hollywood sign, so that every day when I drive home I'm reminded of why I'm here.
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It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
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Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters.
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It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
