C. S. Lewis Quotes
Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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When I had no money, I would find out which friend had work and money at that point in time and would go and stay with him for a week. All of us theatre guys did that.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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When I got drafted by Minnesota, and I think I said this a couple weeks ago, I think I felt obligated to bring a Super Bowl to Minnesota.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Even someone who works with me, like this girl who works with me, her name is Sue. She lives with me and holds the fort; she takes care of all these little things. She takes care of the money situation, and I would not be able to live without someone like that.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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I think the amazing thing about 'Twin Peaks' was that it completely changed television from that point forward. It showed everyone that you can just sit really quiet with storylines and characters. It can be scary, it can be uncomfortable, it can be weirdly funny.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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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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You can have the best people in the business, but if they're not collaborating - and they're butting heads - then it's all going to go south.
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I didn't want to accept that people would forget me, that the government wouldn't do anything to negotiate our freedom. After a year, I came to understand that not only had one year passed, many more would come.
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No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.
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The importance of the river cannot be overstated in the history of the country, or the development of the nation.
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If prayer puts God to work on earth, then, by the same token, prayerlessness rules God out of the world's affairs and prevents Him from working.
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It is . . . the citizens choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
