C. S. Lewis Quotes
The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
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The tagline at Westin hotels is that they strive to surprise and delight their guests. This is exactly what a college essay should do.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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It is true that they paid much more attention to the trade unions because the trade unions were after all speaking for the rights and conditions of working men and women in their employment.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I come from a Christian faith. I am not going to give you insight into my particular beliefs.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
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If I had to choose, I'd choose my friends over my career.
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Common man is always benefited by a rate cut.
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If you look at the polling around climate change in this country before 'Sandy', that was kind of the low point in terms of Americans believing that climate change was real and that humans were causing it.
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I try to get away and take my motorcycle on a ride whenever I can. I'll take my bike out before the show and just cruise.
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People should recognize who you are and how you can act rather then how famous you are.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.
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All the screen cowboys behaved like real gentlemen. They didn't drink, they didn't smoke. When they knocked the bad guy down, they always stood with their fists up, waiting for the heavy to get back on his feet. I decided I was going to drag the bad guy to his feet and keep hitting him.
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I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.
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All my favorite movies are American movies since I was a kid.
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The real job of every moral teacher is to keep bringing us back to the simple principles, which we're so anxious not to see.
