C. S. Lewis Quotes
In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
Quotes to Explore
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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In my state, over 17,000 households are going hungry on a regular basis.
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I dare anybody to look at me and say I'm anorexic. I'm so totally not.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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I took all my wax studies and threw them in the fire... that's the way it is when something unpleasant happens to me. I take my hammer and I squash a figure.
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As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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Achievement results from work realizing ambition.
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The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.
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Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
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I want to teach. I've got to figure a way to continue doing this in some capacity.
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It would definitely be fun to do a musical one day.
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The integrity of the federal procurement system needs to be protected so that the public has confidence in government contracts, and small businesses have every opportunity to compete.
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When the Statist makes a wrong decision, its impact is far-reaching, for he uses the power of government to impose his decision on as many individuals and businesses as possible, which distorts the free market itself.
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I am from the Left, but I am happy to work with people from the Right.
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People have almost been lulled into complacency because there are no signs over the water fountains. But the signs have been in the policies. There's still housing discrimination and wage discrimination.
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My real desire is to see people live in the modus of our time, to participate in the contemporary world, to release themselves from nostalgia, antiquated traditions, old rituals, meaningless kitsch and meaningless paradigms.
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In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.
