C. S. Lewis Quotes

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.

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I don't think I had the aspiration to be a star growing up. I loved Madonna and Bette Midler, and I had my karaoke machine and would sing their songs.
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I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.
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To go back, the mistake that Universal Studios made with 'Dawn of the Dead' was that they didn't have enough money or cared enough to make a soundtrack.
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I don't know how I got out of some of the scrapes I was in. But I know that there's some sort of plan.
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If someone had told me in high school that one day I'd write an historical novel, I would have rolled my eyes.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I arise full of eagerness and energy, knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
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I want to be a major force.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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I wasn't into social media at all, but when I decided I was going to put out my own music, I said, 'Okay, I'm just going to post it.' And that's when it started its rounds on the Internet, and people started to take an interest in me.
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A good plate of sushi after an opening helps to soothe that post-opening blues - especially since you feel like raw meat yourself.
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I lived rough, by my wits, was homeless, lived on the streets, lived on friends' floors, was happy, was miserable.
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I played a lot of other sports at school and just one day the golf bug bit me and I started playing serious golf from when I was ten years old.
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Patriotism is as much a virtue as justice, and is as necessary for the support of societies as natural affection is for the support of families. The Amor Patriae love of ones country is both a moral duty and a religious duty. It comprehends not only the love of our neighbors but of millions of our fellow creatures, not only of the present but of future generations. This virtue we find constitutes a part of the first characters of history.
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In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.