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C. S. Lewis quote: "But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable..."
But the same badness which makes us need it, makes us unable to do it [repent]. Can we do it if God helps us? Yes. C. S. Lewis
I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there. J. K. Rowling
Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative. Kurt Vonnegut
That's something I've noticed about food: whenever there's a crisis if you can get people to eating normally things get better. Madeleine L'Engle
Viktor E. Frankl quote: "It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to..."
It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to the future. Viktor E. Frankl
The characteristic note of our time is the dire truth that, the mediocre soul, the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be mediocre, has the gall to assert its right to mediocrity, and goes on to impose itself where it can. Jose Ortega y Gasset
Woody Allen quote: "I can levitate birds. No one cares."
I can levitate birds. No one cares. Woody Allen
To accept one’s past – one’s history – is not the same thing as drowning in it; it is learning how to use it. An invented past can never be used; it cracks and crumbles under the pressures of life like clay in a season of drought. James Baldwin
The white man is very clever. He came quietly and peaceably with his religion. We were amused at his foolishness and allowed him to stay. Now he has won our brothers, and our clan can no longer act like one. He has put a knife on the things that held us together and we have fallen apart. Chinua Achebe
For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie smoothly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. Franz Kafka
Karl Marx got a bum rap. All he was trying to do was figure out how to take care of a whole lot of people. Of course, socialism is just “evil” now. It’s completely discredited, supposedly, by the collapse of the Soviet Union. I can’t help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to communist China now, which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are. You talk about the collapse of communism or the Soviet Union. My goodness, this country collapsed in 1929. I mean it... Kurt Vonnegut
Anton Chekhov quote: "Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics."
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. Anton Chekhov
Ian Mcewan quote: "How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute..."
How can a novelist achieve atonement when with her absolute power of deciding outcomes, she is also god? Ian Mcewan
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their proper tactic is to demand special privileges, all the traffic will bear. They should never settle merely for equality. For women, "equality" is a disaster. Robert A. Heinlein
When you are in the final days of your life, what will you want? Will you hug that college degree in the walnut frame? Will you ask to be carried to the garage so you can sit in your car? Will you find comfort in rereading your financial statement? Of course not. What will matter then will be people. If relationships will matter most then, shouldn't they matter most now? Max Lucado

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