C. S. Lewis Quotes
In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
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The TiVo is really an amazing machine. Like everyone who has one, I totally recommend it. Just as everyone who's married will tell you to get married, and everyone who has a baby tells you to have a baby, everyone who owns a TiVo will tell you to get a TiVo, and they'll say things like 'Your life will be completely different.' It's true.
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Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.
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I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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Wonder Woman is a fighter, better than most, but it's what she fights for that is important. It's her vision of a future of peace and acceptance that makes her the right ambassador for everyone.
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Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,' which often means, 'all by themselves.' Why? They've been there. They understand the policies needed to keep women in the workforce.
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We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
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Where there is a problem, the risks to the public are greater than they've ever been before.
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Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
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In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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When people are struggling, that's a painful place to be in, to not know who you are and where you belong and what you desire.
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In Rwanda that genocide happened because the international community and the Security Council refused to give, again, another 5000 troops which would have cost, I don't know, maybe fifty, a hundred, million dollars.
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I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
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We pardon familiar vices.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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'Game of Thrones' is the broadest of narratives. I don't know if anyone in the U.S. has done a story on such a large scale before, both in terms of what George R.R. Martin wrote and what's on the show.
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It has been said by a certain general, that the first object in the establishment of an army ought to be making provision for the belly, that being the basis and foundation of all operations.
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As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.
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In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are.
