Quotes 241 till 260 of 295.
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There is no correlation between a childhood success and a professional athlete.
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There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.
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They had me on the operating table all day. They looked into my stomach, my gall bladder, they examined everything inside of me. Know what they decided? I need glasses.
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They would say, he answered, that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience.
That Hideous Strength (1945) Ch. 7 : The Pendragon, section 2 -
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
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This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.
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This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.
Mere Christianity (1952) -
Though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still which she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time.
The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) Ch. 15 -
To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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Today, the degradation of the inner life is symbolized by the fact that the only place sacred from interruption is the private toilet.
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Today, the notion of progress in a single line without goal or limit seems perhaps the most parochial notion of a very parochial century.
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Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You always want to beat someone.
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Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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Try now to answer my third riddle. By what rule to you tell a copy from an original?
The Pilgrims Regress (1933) Pilgrims Regress 52 -
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
The Problem of Pain (1940) -
Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
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War is the supreme drama of a completely mechanized society.
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We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.
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