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In Catholicism, the pint, the pipe and the Cross can all fit together.

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Christianity, whatever else it is, is an explosion. Unless it is sensational there is simply no sense in it. Unless the Gospel sounds like a gun going off it has not been uttered at all.

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On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the stone rolled away. In varying ways they realized the new wonder; but even they hardly realized that the world had died in the night. What they were looking at was the first day of a new creation, with a new heaven and a new earth; and in a semblance of the gardener God walked again in the garden, in the cool not of the evening but of the dawn.

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We are learning to do a great many clever things. The next great task will be to learn not to do them.

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An almost unnatural vigilance is really required of the citizen because of the horrible rapidity with which human institutions grow old.

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If we are bound to improve, we need not trouble to improve. The pure doctrine of progress is the best of all reasons for not being a progressive.

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The ignorant pronounce it Frood To cavil or applaud The well-informed pronounce it Froyd But I pronounce it Fraud.

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A strange fanaticism fills our time: the fanatical hatred of morality, especially of Christian morality.

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Gluttony is a great fault; but we do not necessarily dislike a glutton. We only dislike the glutton when he becomes a gourmet-that is, we only dislike him when he not only wants the best for himself, but knows what is best for other people.

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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

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You never know the best about men until you know the worst about them.

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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

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A fairly clear line separated advertisement from art. ... The first effect of the triumph of the capitalist (if we allow him to triumph) will be that that line of demarcation will entirely disappear. There will be no art that might not just as well be advertisement.

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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

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Misers get up early in the morning; and burglars, I am informed, get up the night before.

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Thoughts on the Merits of Work The worst of work nowadays is what happens to people when they cease to work.

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No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

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I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.

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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

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