"When the voice of your friend or the……" — C.S. Lewis

When the voice of your friend or the page of your book… - C.S. Lewis

"When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more."

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If you have a priest that is pushing social justice, go find another parish. Go alert your bishop. — Glenn Beck
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses. — Georges Bernanos
I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion… — Harold Brodkey
This change to a higher phase of alert is a signal to governments, to ministries of health and other ministries,… — Margaret Chan
When I see someone who is starved, they don't look alert. They don't have boundless energy. If you're too skinny,… — Kirstie Alley
I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and… — Robert H. Schuller
Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men… — Louis D. Brandeis
The land retains an identity of its own, still deeper and more subtle than we can know. Our obligation toward… — Barry Lopez
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and… — Thorstein Veblen
In the morn of life we are alert, we are heated in its noon, and only in its decline do… — Walter Savage Landor
Restfulness is a quality for cattle; the virtues are all active, life is alert. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain… — Rajneesh

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