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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in…
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I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth…
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
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You cannot imagine the craving for rest that I feel-a hunger and thirst. For six long days, since my work was done,…
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He was inordinately proud of England and he abused her incessantly.
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I had just taken to reading. I had just discovered the art of leaving my body to sit impassive in a crumpled…
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The Islamic teachings have left great traditions for equitable and gentle dealings and behavior, and inspire people with nobility and tolerance. These…
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We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
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We want to get rid of the militarist not simply because he hurts and kills, but because he is an intolerable thick-voiced…
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Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.
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The cat, which is a solitary beast, is single minded and goes its way alone, but, the dog, like his master, is…
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Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable.
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If a philosopher is not a man, he is anything but a philosopher; he is above all a pedant, and a pedant…
— Miguel de Unamuno
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
— Lord Chesterfield
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature then we the pedant.
— Confucius
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Have you ever seen a pedant with a warm heart?
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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A man who knows the world will not only make the most of everything he does know, but of many things he…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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It is an old trick. The playgoer who does not like dirty plays is denounced as a prude; the music-lover who resents…
— Royal Cortissoz
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All discourse of which others cannot partake is not only an irksome usurpation of the time devoted to pleasure and entertainment, but,…
— Samuel Johnson
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The unlettered man who prayed to his maker would be heard; the pedant reciting a faultless invocation would be ignored.
— Israel Shenker
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The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and…
— H. L. Mencken
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He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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The learned languages are indispensable to form the gentleman and the scholar, and are well worth all the labor that they have…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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