C. S. Lewis Quotes

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.

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Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff. It means that deconstruction of the superhero is something you can do. All those movies have led to a point where we can finally have 'Watchmen' with a Superman character who doesn't want to save the world and a Batman who has trouble in bed.
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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 think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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We are now living in a fast paced technological era where every skill that we teach our children becomes obsolete in the 10 to 15 years due to exponentially growing technological advances.
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
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If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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It is thought and feeling which guides the universe, not deeds.
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There has to be a cut-off somewhere between the freedom of expression and a graphically explicit free-for-all.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
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...with like-minded people one cannot discuss. With like-minded people one can only participate in a church service, and, as is widely known, I do not like church services.
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.