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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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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When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a relaxing, normal life.
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There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.
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If I had a penny for every time I've been asked if I'm going to work in America.
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A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted.
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This has always been a small agency with a big mission. But these days, especially, we have to stand up every day, deliver value into the hands of small-business owners and get taxpayers the biggest bang for their buck so that we can help these job creators do what they need to do.
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Refugees tend to avoid planes, airports and fake passports, even though flying may appear to be the most obvious way to flee. For one thing, security procedures at airports are far stricter than at land borders.
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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.