C. S. Lewis Quotes
We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
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I even have a Harmony Rocket and a Stratocaster with a scalloped neck back in Florida.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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Wealth is the ultimate panacea to poverty.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I personally don't think ginger men have a habit of being attractive. We have to make ourselves seem attractive by doing stuff.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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How a piece ends is very important to me. It's the last chance to leave an impression with the reader, the last shot at 'nailing' it. I love to write ending lines; usually, I know them first and write toward them, but if I knew how they came to me, I wouldn't tell.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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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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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.
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Sometimes, I'm an ogre. I can be short. I'll walk into the office some days and I've gotten up on the wrong side of the bed, and everybody knows it. I'm a perfectionist. I like to be organized, and I like to get everything done today.
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Ministers have received their wages, and some have their minds too much on their wages. They labor for wages, and lose sight of the sacredness and importance of the work.
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In Germany, of course, the Holocaust will always be in our history and a big stain on our lives.
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The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.
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I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
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I've got to be confident in all the pitches I'm throwing so I can throw anything in any count.
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We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.
