"We have a strange illusion that mere time……" — C.S. Lewis
"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin."
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1,827 Quotes by C.S. Lewis
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who,…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and…
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More Cancels Quotes
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one of 34 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.
— Winston Churchill
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A battle that you win cancels any other bad action of yours. In the same way, by losing one, all…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot…
— Robert Griffin III
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Assuredly there is but one way in which to achieve what is not merely difficult but utterly against human nature:…
— John Calvin
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Love makes the world go 'round, it's true, but lust stops the world in its tracks; love renders bearable the…
— Tom Robbins
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I'm a competitive player, and I love being on the court. If the NBA cancels the season I'm definitely looking…
— Paul Pierce
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Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.
— Unknown Author
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For every child who wants to be accepted wholly and loved unconditionally, there are others who simply want to be…
— Natsuki Takaya
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Britain has the IRA and no one cancels concerts there.
— Sharon Osbourne
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All I say cancels out, I’ll have said nothing.
— Samuel Beckett
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The worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor…
— William McFee
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A lot of stand-up comedy guys, when they get a little famous, just give up their stand-up career, and it…
— Johnny Knoxville
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