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Latter-day scepticism is fond of calling itself progressive; but scepticism is really reactionary. Scepticism goes back; it attempts to unsettle what has already been settled.… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I don't think anything gives your life joy and meaning. I think your life simply has joy and meaning. The love for my children, the… — Penn Jillette
One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is… — C.S. Lewis
We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to… — C.S. Lewis
Most men in a concentration camp believed that the real opportunities of life had passed. Yet, in reality, there was an opportunity and a challenge.… — Viktor E. Frankl
If you are not financially independent by the time you are forty or fifty, it doesn't mean that you are living in the wrong country… — Jim Rohn
Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the… — Rebecca West
Today we are in a situation in which the free movement of people can have enormous, monumental dimensions, and I don't think that any country… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
It simply doesn't make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to… — William J. Clinton
...there is simply nothing so important to a people and its government as how many of them there are, whether their number is growing or… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
We have seen numerous instances in which American businesses have brought in foreign skilled workers after having laid off skilled American workers, simply because they… — Ronald Reagan
So let us take our fair share of the true refugees and act responsible as a government in providing for their necessary expenses. Let us… — Alan K. Simpson
All ethics so far evolved rest upon a single premise: that the individual is a member of a community of interdependent parts. . . The… — Aldo Leopold
The doctrine that 'human rights' are superior to 'property rights' simply means that some human beings have the right to make property out of others. — Ayn Rand
Nothing in my hand I bring, Simply to Thy cross I cling — Augustus Toplady
Mindful and creative, a child who has neither a past, nor examples to follow, nor value judgments, simply lives, speaks and plays in freedom. — Arnaud Desjardins
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children… — Marshall Fritz
The time was simply ripe for the disappearance of tonality. Naturally this was a fierce struggle; inhibitions of the most frightful kind had to be… — Anton Webern
And I simply decided to be happy again. — Zeenat Aman
A story contained in the family lore of Brigham Young's descendants illustrates the submissive nature of humility. It recounts that in a public meeting the… — Truman G. Madsen
You love simply because you cannot help it. — Unknown Author
Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings,… — Edward Alsworth Ross
To put the flesh of an animal into one's belly makes one an accessory after the fact of its slaughter, simply because if cows, pigs,… — Philip Kapleau
And who can deny that Stalin and Mao, not to mention Pol Pot and a host of others, all committed atrocities in the name of… — Dinesh D'Souza
God is not discoverable or demonstrable by purely scientific means, unfortunately for the scientifically minded. But that really proves nothing. It simply means that the… — John Bertram Phillips

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