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I like criticism, but it must be my way.

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I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic. It is only the love of God, disclosed and enacted in Christ, that redeems the human tragedy and makes it tolerable. No, more than tolerable. Wonderful.

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We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles.

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A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty.

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College is a place where a professor's lecture notes go straight to the students' lecture notes, without passing through the brains of either.

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The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials.

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Of all God's creatures, there is only one that cannot be made slave of the leash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

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Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

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In forgiving, people are not being asked to forget. On the contrary, it is important to remember, so that we should not let such atrocities happen again. Forgiveness does not mean condoning what has been done. It means taking what happened seriously...drawing out the sting in the memory that threatens our entire existence.

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The trouble with the world is not that people know too little; it's that they know so many things that just aren't so.

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There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

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I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind & keep them shut by force.

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To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer.

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I felt it was my duty to praise all of God's works with fervent enthusiasm. At the same time I killed flies in my house in a spirit of hatred, exasperation and contempt. My praise to God for all his works was dishonest, the act of killing the fly was honest.

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Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave.

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A pessimist is a well-informed optimist.

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A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize.

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The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin.

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Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare.

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