C. S. Lewis Quotes
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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
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I love working the legislative process.
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Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form.
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The army should go back to their assigned duties, and police should take the responsibility of fighting the cartels.
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Sometimes in someone's gestures you can notice how a parent is somehow inhabiting that person without there being any awareness of that. Sometimes you can look at your hand and see your father.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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After five years in Ferrari, being second all the time, I think it was enough for me.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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China - if you think about what is the character of China, it's enormous scale. It's bigness.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.
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Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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It is difficult to take in that your idols are in the same place as you are.
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Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.
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There was a time when papal encyclicals were treated as virtual pronouncements of papal infallibility. There are still a small minority of Catholics who cite Pope Paul VI's 1968 document Humanae Vitae - which outlawed artificial birth control - as the word of God.
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If you set your heart upon philosophy, you must straightway prepare yourself to be laughed at and mocked by many who will say Behold a philosopher arisen among us! or How came you by that brow of scorn? But do you cherish no scorn, but hold to those things which seem to you the best, as one set by God in that place. Remember too, that if you abide in those ways, those who first mocked you, the same shall afterwards reverence you; but if you yield to them, you will be laughed at twice as much as before.
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The God that can be named is not God.
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The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite.
