Quotes 121 till 140 of 295.
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In the democratic western countries so-called capitalism leads a saturnalia of ''freedom,'' like a bastard brother of reform.
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Instead of getting married again. I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
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Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.
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Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.
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It doesn't matter whether you are rich or poor - as long as you've got money.
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It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through, as in a market, and voted on.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him.
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It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him. We must not use the Bible as a sort of encyclopedia out of which texts can be taken for use as weapons.
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It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.
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It is more comfortable for me, in the long run, to be rude than polite.
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It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.
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It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
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It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.
Source: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Silver Chair (1953), Ch. 16 : The Healing of H -
It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.
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It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Life is like a dogsled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
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Life is the only art that we are required to practice without preparation, and without being allowed the preliminary trials, the failures and botches, that are essential for training.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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