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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O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!
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And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!
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Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.
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The patent talks about anticipatory package shipping, which the press seized upon as though Amazon could somehow mail you something before you bought it.
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There is no place for nostalgia in a progressive world. The new school not only ignores nostalgia, but condemns it. The world of yesterday is becoming an isolated world of remembrances and echoes so forbidden that, to decorate the present with it, you must often do so with a sense of humor or belong to a select group.
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'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)
