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Blessed is he that expecteth nothing, for he shall be gloriously surprised.

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It is hard to make government representative when it is also remote.

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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.

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The only thing that has kept the race of men from the mad extremes of the convent and the pirate-galley, the night-club and the lethal chamber, has been mysticism - the belief that logic is misleading, and that things are not what they seem.

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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism is that it removes the motive power. Materialism is not a thing which destroys mere restraint. Materialism itself is the great restraint.

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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.

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We lose our bearings entirely by speaking of the 'lower classes' when we mean humanity minus ourselves.

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In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes after all is hopeless, that hope begins to dawn.

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I entertain a private suspicion that physical sports were much more really effective and beneficent when they were not taken quite so seriously. One of the first essentials of sport being healthy is that it should be delightful; it is rapidly becoming a false religion with austerities and prostrations.

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There are no new ideas about female education.

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One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

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What we call emancipation is always and of necessity simply the free choice of the soul between one set of limitations and another.

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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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A feminist is someone who loathes being a woman and who dislikes the chief feminine characteristics.

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All things are from God; and above all, reason and imagination and the great gifts of the mind. They are good in themselves; and we must not altogether forget their origin even in their perversion.

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Suppose, my dear Chadd, suppose it is we who are the idiots because we are not afraid of devils in the dark?

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Whatever the word "great" means, Dickens was what it means.

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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.

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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don't believe in anything anymore.

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Silence is the unbearable repartee.

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