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I am not fighting a hopeless fight. People who have fought in real fights don't, as a rule.

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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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Excuse me if I enjoy myself rather obviously! I don't often have the luck to have a dream like this. It is new to me for a nightmare to lead me to a lobster. It is commonly the other way.

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.

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At any innocent tea-table we may easily hear a man say, "Life is not worth living." We regard it as we regard the statement that it is a fine day; nobody thinks that it can possibly have any serious effect on the man or on the world. And yet if that utterance were really believed, the world would stand on its head.

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If our caricaturists do not hate their enemies, it is not because they are too big to hate them, but because their enemies are not big enough to hate.

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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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The Mass is not only about God becoming man, it is about Man becoming more himself.

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He who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.

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Here ends another day, during which I have had eyes, ears, hands and the great world around me. Tomorrow begins another day. Why am I allowed two?

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There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery. It is a thing like the landscape of his dreams; the sort of world he would like to make or in which he would like to wander, the strange flora and fauna, his own secret planet, the sort of thing he likes to think about. This general atmosphere, and pattern or a structure of growth, governs all his creations, however varied.

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Man is at his tallest when he bows.

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There is a corollary to the conception of being too proud to fight. It is that the humble have to do most of the fighting.

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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

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I will not call it my philosophy; for I did not make it. God and humanity made it; and it made me.

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Posting a letter and getting married [sic] are among the few things left that are entirely romantic; for to be entirely romantic, a thing must be irrevocable

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We do not need to get good laws to restrain bad people. We need to get good people to restrain us from bad laws.

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Only friendliness produces friendship. And we must look far deeper into the soul of man for the thing that produces friendliness.

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It seems a pity that psychology has destroyed all our knowledge of human nature.

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