Superstition is the poison of the mind.


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You're not going to get a chance to vote for me on the ballot, but you can actually vote for wha...
CARL LEWIS
Every New Year's Eve, I have a pact to do something I never thought I'd do. So I created thi...
CARL LEWIS
Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. ...
CARL LEWIS
'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the...
CARL LEWIS
I found the emotion that as an athlete you block out, and it really helped me to understand myself a...
CARL LEWIS
When I decided to go for four gold medals I planned it out over a few years. It was in four differen...
CARL LEWIS
Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that...
CARL LEWIS
I'm a fast learner. I may not run as fast as I used to, but I think I still learn as fast.
CARL LEWIS
Amateurism is the strongest form of discrimination in sports. Because it discriminates against the u...
CARL LEWIS
The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their politic...
CARL LEWIS
You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
CARL LEWIS
The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the chal...
CARL LEWIS
Track and field is the best way to reach out for kids. It doesn't matter how fast you are. You a...
CARL LEWIS
People have a moral standard about what they will do and will not do. At the end of the day someone ...
CARL LEWIS
Life is about timing.
CARL LEWIS
What makes it difficult for people trying to follow a dream is that the whole time you feel like you...
LEWIS BLACK
... the very last thing I want to do is to unsettle in the mind of any Christian, whatever his denom...
C.S. LEWIS
If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should...
C.S. LEWIS
It is hard to have patience with people who say There is no death or Death doesn't matter. There is ...
C.S. LEWIS
Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
LEWIS CARROLL
I am fond of children--except boys.
LEWIS CARROLL
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare
the truth thou hast, that all may share;
Be bo...
LEWIS MORRIS
The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that ...
LEWIS THOMAS
The earth is the Lord's fullness thereof: this is no longer a hollow dictum of religion, but a direc...
LEWIS MUMFORD
They're the only friends that I've had consistently throughout high school. We've put in so many hou...
ALEX LEWIS
We know they have a lot of long, athletic guys that like to take it up and down the floor a lot. The...
ALEX LEWIS
Everyone sort of got stagnant. We weren't making the best passes that we could. I don't know if it w...
ALEX LEWIS
We took a game-by-game focus. If we took it like that, we figured we'd have as much success as we've...
ALEX LEWIS
They have to keep working and we have to take their lunches over to the pits.
ALEX LEWIS
Their food has to be nutritious, high in protect and high in volume. It has to include a choice of f...
ALEX LEWIS
What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
C.S. LEWIS
The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to...
C.S. LEWIS
You can make anything by writing.
C.S. LEWIS
I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep sile...
C.S. LEWIS
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have re...
C.S. LEWIS
Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found...
C.S. LEWIS
God can't give us peace and happiness apart from Himself because there is no such thing.
C.S. LEWIS