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Why not give Christianity a trial?

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Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

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Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like. See?

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.

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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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