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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It doesn't happen every day, but many nights my dreams are like a movie. I don't see normal movement - I see things in very complicated shots. That's why I do remember many of them.
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If I was very high-strung, I probably would've knocked a few people out by now, and, you know, you would have seen a bad side of me that probably, hopefully, I'll never show.
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We've all seen that every challenge we've gone through, we've learned something from. It's not getting hung up on the challenges but figuring out how to get ahead.
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
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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.
