C. S. Lewis Quotes
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
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We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I have always said that often the religion you were born with becomes more important to you as you see the universality of truth.
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When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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If we go back in the history of different nations, violence and the use of force are part of their heritage. These are the traditions of mankind.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'
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Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.
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'The Sound of Things Falling' may be a page turner, but it's also a deep meditation on fate and death. Even in translation, the superb quality of Vasquez's prose is evident, captured in Anne McLean's idiomatic English version. All the novel's characters are well imagined, original and rounded.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I'd love to open a camp focusing on the arts accessible to kids from all income brackets.
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Good design is good business.
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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I just wanna get to the end of the day without it raining.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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The real problem is not the religion itself, but its insistence that the interpretation it offers of the world is the only valid interpretation.
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We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and privacy: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.
