C. S. Lewis Quotes
Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.
Quotes to Explore
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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I never eat where the hotel recommends. I do my own research and then try the most highly rated options.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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Iraq did not spontaneously opt for disarmament. They did it as part of a ceasefire, so they were forced to do it, otherwise the war might have gone on. So the motivation has been very different.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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Lipgloss is my calling!
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I think that if you do want to be a fighter, then you need to work harder than everybody else and make sure that you surround yourself with good people, especially if you're a woman. You've got to find a team that takes you seriously as a female fighter and is not going to rush you into the ring before you're ready.
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
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I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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I took some of the hardest things about my life and wrote an empowering song with it. It has made me want to always write from that place.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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My grandmother influenced me so deeply.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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My mother was terribly invasive, all in the name of psychiatric honesty. It was a bad thing in some ways, but I do think it had the effect of making me interested in 'the truth' as a writer - more than beauty, more than having a shapely story.
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Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.
