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Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
C. S. Lewis
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C. S. Lewis
Age: 64 †
Born: 1898
Born: January 1
Died: 1963
Died: January 1
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My will, shall become your will. My heart, shall become your heart.
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The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so.
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Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after.
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Agnostics talk cheerfully of man's search for God but they might as well talk about the mouse's search for the cat.
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