C. S. Lewis Quotes
'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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In order to raise money from somebody, you have to understand who is this person, not to deceive them but to understand them. What would be their motives for contributing money? Why do these people contribute money to some places, but not to others? That's attunement - treating everybody well, but not treating everybody the same.
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I like to play poker. I have a nice poker group that's been going on for years.
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I say the law should be blind to race, gender and sexual orientation, just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind, except for children, the severely disabled and the elderly, whose physical frailty demands society's care.
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My first job was with an auto plant, Kansas City - they treated you like slaves. From there I went back to Chicago, worked in steel mills, drove a cab, stuff like that.
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All the big online retailers are looking at how to enter the Russian market.
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I had my own motor boat which we would take to Khadakvasla, but that was 40 years ago.
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I'm obviously not an advocate of Christian America or a simplistic view of America as 'a city on a hill.'
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I was 24 when Samori was born. His mom was 23.
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
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If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
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I'm gluten intolerant, so that automatically cuts carbs from my diet.
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In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time.
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I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.
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Never be afraid of the moments-thus sings the voice of the everlasting.
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We have a choice, every single day that we wake up, of what we can put into the world, and I ask you to please choose love every single day.
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Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of everything.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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It has become evident that the primary lesson of the study of evolution is that all evolution is coevolution: every organism is evolving in tandem with the organisms around it.
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When I feel like it's time for me to say something and it's time for me to speak up and allow my emotions to get into the games and practice, then I will say something.
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'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
