C. S. Lewis Quotes
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I love the creativity of New York, but I don't enjoy the city - I don't like living here.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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The Medicaid system currently steers people toward nursing home care. Far more people can be covered in community-based care programs for significantly less.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.
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I like the strategy of finding great entrepreneurs early, giving them some money, helping them a little - perhaps not as much as we would a regular core investment.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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I was just never discouraged from doing something wacky like trying to be a comedian.
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I had never done a 90-minute play with no intermission, so it is a bit like you get onto the train and you don't get off until it's over - and it's over very quickly, so don't miss a moment of it. That experience is very rare and specific so don't miss a minute, because there aren't very many minutes of it.
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Tremendous changes are taking place in our country, eradicating the concept of second-class citizenship.
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Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.
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No wonder scoundrels find refuge in patriotism; it offers them immunity from criticism.
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is like, simply for the sake of knowing. When that desire is completely quenched in anyone, I think he has become something less than human.
