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All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 : -
All things by immortal power. Near of far, to each other linked are, that thou canst not stir a flower without troubling of a star.
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All things that are,
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Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
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Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
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Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.
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Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
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Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it.
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Always do more than is required of you.
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America is a country that would rather talk about race than class.
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America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales built statues to each other they'd be smaller then these.
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America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible.
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America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
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American actresses have more problems than I do; I'm lucky to be able to play what I want for a smaller audience, because I have my own country to do that in.
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American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.
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American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
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Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
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Americans want action for their money. They are fascinated by its self-reproducing qualities if it's put to work. Gold-hoarding goes against the American grain; it fits in better with European pessimism than with America's traditional optimism.
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