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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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The second suggestion is to think as well as to read. I know people who read and read, and for all the…
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David Shire and I have been happily married for 21 years! We have a 12-year-old son. David is a genius. He writes…
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All in all, Tolkien fans are as varied, remarkable and marvelous as the books and the worlds that they share. They make…
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What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
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But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for…
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We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me.
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We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the…
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I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a…
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Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire…
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Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any…
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They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew…
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