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Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an…
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out…
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second…
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The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material…
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We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they…
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Total war is the most humane in the long run.
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Those who would most scornfully repudiate Christianity as a mere "opiate of the people" have a contempt for the rich, that is,…
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
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Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe.
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A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference…
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Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.
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I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert…
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Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.
— Sally Rand
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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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The avaricious man is like the barren sandy ground of the desert which sucks in all the rain and dew with greediness,…
— Zeno of Elea
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Traditionally in Christian circles, Judas in fact has been associated with Jews. Of being traitors, avaricious, who in fact, betray Jesus, who…
— Bart D. Ehrman
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"The Jews should not be allowed to keep what they have obtained from others by usury; it were best that they were…
— Thomas Aquinas
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We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in "blockbusting." If…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because nothing can be gained from him.
— Voltaire
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Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious,…
— C.S. Lewis
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A minor fief had risen up against their cruel and avaricious lord, with hundreds of people surrounding his Manor house, threatening to…
— John Flanagan
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Have I given any symptoms of an avaricious disposition? Have I obtained any grants from the crown since I have been placed…
— Robert Walpole
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