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- Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- 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.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 12-06-05
- Marriage is really tough because you have to deal with feelings... and lawyers.
- Richard Pryor (1940 - 2005)
- It is quite possible for people who have never met us and who have spent only twenty minutes thinking about us to come to a better understanding of who we are than people who have known us for years.
- Malcolm Gladwell, Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, 2005
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