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Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light…
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For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater…
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I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man…
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I believe absolutely in love being the central motive force of the universe.
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I have always been a writer of letters, and of long ones; so, when I first thought of writing a book in…
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I still think that if the human race, or even one nation, could only get right about its God the rest would…
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I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so…
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If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
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It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's…
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive.
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A saint is one who makes goodness attractive. Surely, a great teacher does the same thing for education.
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Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over,…
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The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
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The fatal hour of this ancient game is approaching. In its modern form this game will soon die a drawing death -…
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The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the…
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Marxism is the modern form of Jewish prophecy.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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I draw a distinction between traditional Islam and Islamism. Islamism emerged in its modern form in the 1920s and is driven by…
— Daniel Pipes
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
— Mary McCarthy
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Whenever people are certain they understand our peculiar situation here on this planet, it is because they have accepted a religious Faith…
— Robert Anton Wilson
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What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that…
— David Blunkett
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Anticommunism in its modern form was invented by liberals like Harry Truman, the architect of the national security state. The proportion of…
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