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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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I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and…
— Georg Brandes
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One must be frank to be relevant.
— Corazon Aquino
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does…
— Milan Kundera
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Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it.
— Mark Twain
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The historian should be fearless and incorruptible; a man of independence, loving frankness and truth; one who, as the poets says, calls…
— Lucian
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As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great…
— Natalia Ginzburg
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You must study to be frank with the world: frankness is the child of honesty and courage. Say just what you mean…
— Robert E. Lee
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In a world where success is the measure and justification of all things the figure of Him who was sentenced and crucified…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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The 'frankness' of people sunk below shame is a very cheap frankness.
— C.S. Lewis
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I expected so much from life and if I had not seen it so close, I would to this day be expecting…
— Ivan Goncharov
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A sound marriage is not based on complete frankness; it is based on a sensible reticence.
— Morris L. Ernst
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Adhere To - Faith, Unity, Sacrifice. Avoid - Back-biting, Falsehood and Crookedness. Admire - Frankness, Honesty, and Large-heartedness. Control - Tongue, Temper,…
— Sivananda
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