C. S. Lewis Quotes
I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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I don't think I'm anti-Israeli.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Cricket is very simple... you play till you can sustain.
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Today, as we look back on the history of our nation and take note of how far we have come as a people, we are reminded that we owe a great debt to those who fought valiantly for the freedoms that we easily take for granted.
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Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.
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You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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In the film, I'm not very mobile, like in the space suit.
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Now the main areas of higher education that still enjoy considerable financial support from government are subjects like engineering and science and the research ringfence which is the basic minimum to protect Britain's scientific competitiveness.
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I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
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The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.
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Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
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I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.
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Every immortal except Jack Nicklaus has hit a wall and stopped making putts he had to make in order to win. Jack did it for 20 years.
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
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I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't have the inclination or time. I'm more of a 'get on the plane, arrive at the destination and see what happens' kind of traveler.
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Eternal Spirit of the chainless Mind! Brightest in dungeons, Liberty! thou art, For there thy habitation is the heart –The heart which love of thee alone can bind; And when thy sons to fetters are consign'd – To fetters and damp vault's dayless gloom, Their country conquers with their martyrdom.
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What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.
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I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.
