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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.
— Oswald Chambers
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If we had time and no money, living by our wits, what story would you tell?
— Adrienne Rich
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Wounds and hardships provoke our courage, and when our fortunes are at the lowest, our wits and minds are commonly at the…
— Pierre Charron
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When we are at our wits' end for an answer, then the Holy Spirit can give us an answer. But how can…
— Karl Barth
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Who said it first? We don't know, but very often we find the same ideas attributed to two different people. All we…
— Eden Phillpotts
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It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and…
— Wendell Berry
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The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Bertrand Russell
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Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used…
— David Suzuki
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Of course it’s the apparently tranquil periods that deceive us. Though our instruments or our senses or our wits may not be…
— Clive Barker
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Out of economic hardship can come change - we are suddenly cast onto our wits and our talents and our resources and…
— Michael Leunig
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The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
— Eden Phillpotts
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We were trained to live by our wits, in any circumstance.
— William Stephenson
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