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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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Music enhances the education of our children by helping them to make connections and broadening the depth with which they think and…
— Yo-Yo Ma
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The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets…
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The single most important condition for literacy learning is the presence of mentors who are joyfully literate people.
— Shirley Brice Heath
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I think it's important for all culturally literate people to understand the technological substrate of new developments.
— Hari Kunzru
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Sincere thought, real free thought, ready, in the name of superhuman authority or of humble common sense, to question the basis of…
— Savitri Devi
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The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Language is the crowning achievement of human beings, and that is something Muslims have always known and revered. We are a literate…
— Hamza Yusuf
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The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read…
— J M Roberts
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...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, onlyone national hero; and…
— Ellen Glasgow
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