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Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox; that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home.

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We have passed the age of the demagogue, the man who has little to say and says it loud. We have come to the age of the mystagogue or don, the man who has nothing to say, but says it softly and impressively in an indistinct whisper.

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Man is not merely an evolution but rather a revolution.

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The coziness between church and state is good for the state and bad for the church

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No one can understand Paris and its history who does not understand that its fierceness is the balance and justification of its frivolity. It is called a city of pleasure; but it may also very specially be called a city of pain. The crown of roses is also a crown of thorns. Its people are too prone to hurt others, but quite ready also to hurt themselves. They are martyrs for religion, they are martyrs for irreligion; they are even martyrs for immorality.

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It is the simple truth that man does differ from the brutes in kind and not in degree; and the proof of it is here; that it sounds like a truism to say that the most primitive man drew a picture of a monkey and that it sounds like a joke to say that the most intelligent monkey drew a picture of a man. Something of division and disproportion has appeared; and it is unique. Art is the signature of man.

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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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All but the hard hearted man must be torn with pity for this pathetic dilemma of the rich man, who has to keep the poor man just stout enough to do the work and just thin enough to have to do it.

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Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

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Mankind is not a tribe of animals to which we owe compassion. Mankind is a club to which we owe our subscription.

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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.

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Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon.

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The test of happiness is gratitude.

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I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought; and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

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Modern science is necessarily a double-edged tool, a tool that cuts both ways. ... There is no doubt that a Zeppelin is a wonderful thing; but that did not prevent it from becoming a horrible thing.

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Research is the search of people who don't know what they want.

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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

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Christianity even when watered down is hot enough to boil all modern society to rags.

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Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.

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