C. S. Lewis Quotes
Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I feel comfortable whenever I step on the floor.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.
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Intuitive versus analytical? That's a foolish choice. It's foolish, just like trying to choose between being realistic or idealistic. You need both in life.
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I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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I don't read books.
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My golf swing is probably the most horrendous you've ever seen. I look like I'm trying to attack the ball.
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The gargantuan promiscuity of the Seventies gay male world was a pagan phenomenon, unequaled in scale since the Roman empire.
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As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed by which opinion may be regimented.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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I had my airplane, and I'd use it as a car whenever I could. If the drive was going to be longer than an hour, I was flying the plane instead. And in California, it's really easy to have a drive longer than an hour.
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The quantum theory of parallel universes is not the problem, it is the solution. It is not some troublesome, optional interpretation emerging from arcane theoretical considerations. It is the explanation-the only one that is tenable-of a remarkable and counter-intuitive reality.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
