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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'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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My tax cut would cut hundreds of billions of dollars. So to do it, you have to be willing to cut spending, too. But if you were to cut hundreds of billions of dollars in taxes, that money's left in communities.
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I race in two or three classic races a year and I may carry on for 10 more years or I may stop tomorrow.
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Messi is the best player ever. And this is said by someone who has seen Maradona and Pele play.
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The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.
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Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
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Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the drug store, but that's just peanuts to space.
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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.
