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C. S. Lewis

"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."

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"What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."

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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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"Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue, but also (as they did not see) a school of vice. It is ambivalent. It makes good men better and bad men worse."
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"Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
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"God's presence is not the same as the feeling of God's presence and He may be doing most for us when we think He is doing least."
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"It's not a question of God `sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
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"The Divine "goodness" differs from ours, but it is not sheerly different; it differs from ours not as white from black, but as a perfect circle from a child's first attempt to draw a wheel. But when the child has learned to draw, it will know that the circle it then makes is what it was trying to make from the very beginning."
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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."
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"You are never to old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."

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"What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."

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"Every flower returns to sleep with the earth."

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"Line in nature is not found;Unit and universe are round;In vain produced, all rays return;Evil will bless, and ice will burn."

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"A puddle repeats infinity, and is full of light; nevertheless, if analyzed objectively, a puddle is a piece of dirty water spread very thin on mud."

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"To country people Cows are mild,And flee from any stick they throw;But I'm a timid town bred child,And all the cattle seem to know."

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"The sun rose slowly, as if it wasn't sure it was worth all the effort."

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