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Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic un-interestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity,…
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
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What other sport holds out hope of improvement to a man or a woman over fifty? True, the pros begin to falter…
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The other sad truth about golf spectatorship is that for today's pros it all comes down to the putting, and that the…
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When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves…
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Art imitates Nature in this; not to dare is to dwindle.
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Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one…
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Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a…
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It is the duty of all papas and mammas to forbid their children to drink coffee, unless they wish to have little…
— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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A woman will always sacrifice herself if you give her the opportunity. It is her favourite form of self indulgence.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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God almighty, in a few short hours we will be in battle with the enemy. We do not join battle afraid. We…
— Robert Lee Wolverton
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This is what you should do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,…
— Walt Whitman
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The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious…
— Edwin Louis Cole
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Conscience was the barmaid of the Victorian soul. Recognizing that human beings were fallible and that their failings, though regrettable, must be…
— C. E. M. Joad
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Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
— Iain Banks
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Not many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays itÂ’s often freedom from information,…
— Pico Iyer
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