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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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Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation…
— H.G. Wells
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Thou art the Mars of malcontents.
— William Shakespeare
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... when the struggle seems to be drifting definitely towards a world social democracy, there may still be very great delays and…
— H.G. Wells
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There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.
— Dan Gable
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The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
— A. A. Gill
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In the terms of our Great Society the Hell's Angels and their ilk are losers - dropouts, failures and malcontents. They are…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The humblest praise most, while cranks & malcontents praise least. Praise almost seems to be inner health made audible
— C.S. Lewis
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There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters. One must neither celebrate insanely when he wins, nor sulk when he loses.…
— Dan Gable
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I'm perpetually curious as to what happened to all those supposed prodigies who were singled out while I and my coterie of…
— Wendy Wasserstein
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Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.
— Louis XIV
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
— Salvador Dali
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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.
— Eric Hoffer
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