C. S. Lewis Quotes
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
Quotes to Explore
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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Within NASA, the shuttle is perhaps the least-groundbreaking project. Recall that Apollo was about creating brand-new technologies that did something unprecedented - putting men on the moon. The shuttle is, by comparison, a relic designed to make going into orbit routine.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
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It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
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My favorite thing before going to school was watching 'Full House,' 'Sabrina the Teenage Witch,' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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It is possible for a kid from east Texas, raised in south central LA and Carson, who believes in his dreams, commits himself to them with his heart, to touch them and to have them happen.
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It is one thing to say that there is a constitutional right to keep a gun at home for protection. It is quite another to say there is a constitutional right to bring a hidden gun into a daycare center.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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One believes others will do what he will do to himself.
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I haven't had many relationships.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.
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When government grows, it breaks the family.
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It was essential to do this job, hateful though it was, because we knew the Germans were hot on the trail.
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You can cycle through London on the side streets, which are less polluted - and much more interesting anyway.
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Professional people make everything look perfect, they make everything that you're wearing look great, if it's in a picture or on the runway.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
