C. S. Lewis Quotes
Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
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I got typecast early in my career as the guy who is very intense. Once you get into a certain mold, people see you that way, as much as it's disproved time and again.
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I have had a lot of good things happen, but I've also had a lot of terrible things happen.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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Life is an energy field, a bunch of molecules. And these particular molecules formed to make these four guys, who then formed into this band called the Beatles and did all that work. I have to think that was something metaphysical. Something alchemic. Something that must be thought of as magic.
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We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
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We wake and whisper awhile, But, the day gone by, Silence and sleep like fields Of amaranth lie.
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The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon.
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Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.
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The death of a thousand worshipers is easier to bear than the death of a scholar who has knowledge of what Allah has permitted and forbidden.
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Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.
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They do a lot of cutting, back screens and stuff like that. We weren't ready to handle the back screens and all the cuts. ... They are a well-coached team, and it shows.
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The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
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I work at my life and I cultivate myself and don't spend six hours in a gym. Some people would say I should but why?
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I pumped on that one and he made a great catch, ... That got things going for us. That was a huge play.
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The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on its stalk, And down the windy garden walk The dead leaves scatter,- hour by hour.
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There are many points in the history of an invention which the inventor himself is apt to overlook as trifling, but in which posterity never fail to take a deep interest. The progress of the human mind is never traced with such a lively interest as through the steps by which it perfects a great invention; and there is certainly no invention respecting which this minute information will be more eagerly sought after, than in the case of the steam-engine.
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Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.
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And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
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Pleasure is the test of nature, its approval sign.
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This attempt to ban smoking is an example of social engineering on a vast scale. Such massive intervention in the private lives and choices of one quarter of our adult population recalls the extremism of Prohibition, the last national crusade against a supposed social evil.
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Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
