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Science in the modern world has many uses; its chief use, however, is to provide long words to cover the errors of the rich.

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And Noah he often said to his wife when he sat down to dine, "I don't care where the water goes if it doesn't get into the wine."

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The believers in miracles accept them (rightly or wrongly) because they have evidence for them. The disbelievers in miracles deny them (rightly or wrongly) because they have a doctrine against them.

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One can hardly think too little of one's self. One can hardly think too much of one's soul.

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The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.

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Some of the most frantic lies on the face of life are told with modesty and restraint; for the simple reason that only modesty and restraint will save them.

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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.

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An event is not any more intrinsically intelligible or unintelligible because of the pace at which it moves. For a man who does not believe in a miracle, a slow miracle would be just as incredible as a swift one. The Greek witch may have turned sailors to swine with a stroke of the wand. But to see a naval gentleman of our acquaintance looking a little more like a pig every day, till he ended with four trotters and a curly tail, would not be any more soothing. It might be rather more creepy and uncanny.

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...it is not necessary to the child to awaken to the sense of the strange and humorous by giving a man a luminous nose...to the child it is sufficiently strange and humorous to have a nose at all.

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To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet.

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War is not the best way of settling differences; it is the only way of preventing their being settled for you.

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Men reform a thing by removing the reality from it, and then do not know what to do with the unreality that is left.

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There is more to life than increasing its speed. Gandhi gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? Richard Bach Life exists for the love of music or beautiful things.

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If you spell a word wrong you have some temptation to think it wrong.

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Very few people in the world would care to listen to the real defense of their own characters. The real defense, the defense which belongs to the Day of Judgment, would make such damaging admissions, would clear away so many artificial virtues, would tell such tragedies of weakness and failure, that a man would sooner be misunderstood and censured by the world than exposed to that awful and merciless eulogy.

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Adventure is the champagne of life, but I prefer my champagne and my adventures dry.

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Powerful men who have powerful passions use much of their strength in forging chains for themselves.

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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to 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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