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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one…
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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the…
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A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman…
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No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been…
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Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
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Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself…
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Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after…
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A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for…
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A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
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At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity…
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For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the…
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SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave.…
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My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that…
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Realistic, naturalistic art had dissembled the medium, using art to conceal art; Modernism used art to call attention to art.
— Clement Greenberg
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And since gin to artifice bears the same relation as tears to mascara, her attractions at once dissembled.
— Truman Capote
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Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.
— James A. Baldwin
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