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
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
When I was growing up in Iraq, there was an unbroken belief in progress and a great sense of optimism. It was a moment of nation building.
Zaha Hadid
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
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde
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
I hate changes of administrations, because I have all my villains in place and they are all taken away and replaced with faceless wonders nobody knows.
Pat Oliphant
I strongly support SNAP and will continue to urge my colleagues in Congress to provide adequate funding to this important program.
Dan Maffei
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
Randy Castillo
Mötley Crüe
Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
Federica Montseny
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.
Gal Gadot
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.
Madeleine M. Kunin
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
I believe that the time has come for women to take more active roles in all domains of human society, in an age in which education and the capacities of the mind, not physical strength, define leadership. This could help create a more equitable and compassionate society.
Dalai Lama
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.
Ernest Hemingway
The concepts of truth may differ. But all admit and respect truth. That truth I call God. For sometime I was saying, "God is Truth," but that did not satisfy me. So now I say, "Truth is God."
Mahatma Gandhi
I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.
L.A. Paul
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
