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.
C. S. Lewis
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While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
Eden Robinson
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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.
Ira Glass
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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.
Imogen Heap
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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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.
Aberjhani
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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.
Dan Maffei
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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.
Dag Hammarskjold
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
Jackie Walorski
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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.
Gaby Hoffmann
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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.
Lakhdar Brahimi
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I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
Kariya Munda
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All men were alien one to another, at times, not only aliens.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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Mom and I…we're both very flaky people.
Frances Bean Cobain
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Changing the dialogue and behaviors around race and equality in sports starts with removing barriers and creating opportunities.
Katrina Adams
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Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
Daisaku Ikeda
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
Bill Frist
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When reasons are weak, attitudes stiffen.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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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.
C. S. Lewis
