C. S. Lewis Quotes
Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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They were saying computers deal with numbers. This was absolutely nonsense. Computers deal with arbitrary information of any kind.
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(A Foreign Secretary) is forever poised between the cliche and the indiscretion.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I get homesick.
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
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Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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Since I was 10 years old, I knew I wanted to sail around the world.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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People in extreme conditions are suddenly naked, realer than normal, perhaps even more alive.
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The mechanism of reaching equilibrium by means of a rising cost of living, which is vainly pursued by a rising level of wages, will be described in the next chapter. But it is admitted on all hands that this is the worst possible solution.
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It may sound very strange, but I love the freedom that writing a novel gives me. It is an unhindered experience. If I come after a bad day, I can decide that my protagonist will die on page 100 of my novel in a 350-page story.
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We live in a world where action is what counts.
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Reducing the thinking required to take the next action increases the likelihood of the desired behavior occurring unconsciously.
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Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
