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“Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.”

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One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see…

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Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that…

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To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be…

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Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified…

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“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As”

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“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man…

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All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone…

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If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity.

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The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection.

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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.

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Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were?

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Love is more than an emotion, it is a decision.

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If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am…

Henry David Thoreau

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Our critical day is not the very day of our death; but the whole course of our life.

John Donne

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Bernie [Ecclestone] is the commercial rights holder so the more outgoing the champion is, the better. Of course. I also do think about our…

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The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from…

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We are always saying: Let the Law take its Course but what we really mean is: Let the Law take OUR Course.

Will Rogers

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Men generally decide upon a middle course, which is most hazardous, for they know neither how to be entirely good nor entirely bad.

Niccolo Machiavelli

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I earn my living by teaching film, mostly filmmaking but also teaching courses on current cinema. I'm interested in movies. I hope that's not…

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The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Henry A. Wallace

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To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry…

Clifton Fadiman

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You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.…

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Leave a cavity behind the [wall] facings, and on the inside build walls two feet thick, made of red dimension stone or burnt brick…

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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Of course it does on opening night, but I've never had that devastating stage fright that some people get, but apparently, you can develop…

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