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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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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God wants nothing of you but the gift of a peaceful heart.
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If there are people at once rich and content, be assured that they are content because they know how to be so, not because they are rich.
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If I look at my old lyrics, they seem to be full of rage, but empty. There was an emptiness in my life.
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Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.
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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.
