C. S. Lewis Quotes
Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.
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The idea of modernity is beginning to lose its vitality. It is losing it because modernity is no longer a critical attitude but an accepted, codified convention.
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If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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Were't the last drop in the well,As I gasp'd upon the brink,Ere my fainting spirit fell'T is to thee that I would drink.
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The links have to be between universities, R&D institutes, and industry. If these linkages are in place, it will result in products that are useful for society. The government has to leverage the money it spends on R&D to help develop new products useful for industry.
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Most mental health professionals, including clinicians and researchers, endorse the deficit theory. They're convinced that we wage war simply because we don't know how to make love. We desperately want loving, satisfying relationships but lack the skills we need to develop them.
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All I really want to do is plays - and that's a New York thing.
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After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment.
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Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
