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But-! I say! The common conventions of humanity-' 'Are all very well for common people.

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Let us get together with other people of our sort and make over the world into a great world-civilization that will enable us to realize the promises and avoid the dangers of this new time.

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A biography should be a dissection and demonstration of how a particular human being was made and worked.

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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.

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The War That Will End War.

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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

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Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

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There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel.

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The religion of the atheist has a God-shaped blank at it's heart.

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I must confess that I lost faith in the sanity of the world

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The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second stage of democratic realization. His New Deal involves such collective controls of the national business that it would be absurd to call it anything but socialism, were it not for a prejudice lingering on from the old individualist days against that word...Both Roosevelt and Stalin were attempting to produce a huge, modern, scientifically organized, socialist state, the one out of a warning crisis and the other out of a chaos.

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Satan delights equally in statistics and in quoting scripture.

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Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.

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Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

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There was a time when I believed in the story and the scheme of salvation, so far as I could understand it, just as I believed there was a Devil... Suddenly the light broke through to me and I knew this God was a lie... For indeed it is a silly story, and each generation nowadays swallows it with greater difficulty... Why do people go on pretending about this Christianity?

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Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich.

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Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

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