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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure…

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A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one…
The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the…
A nation's life is about as long as its reverential memory
Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman…
No, those ears were not created by any chance coming together of atoms in nature (the Communist view). They could have been…
Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
Crime, violence, infamy are not tragedy. Tragedy occurs when a human soul awakes and seeks, in suffering and pain, to free itself…
Freedom is a need of the soul, and nothing else. It is in striving toward God that the soul strives continually after…
A man is not primarily a witness against something. That is only incidental to the fact that he is a witness for…
A Communist breaks because he must choose at last between irreconcilable opposites-God or Man, Soul or Mind, Freedom or Communism.
At issue in the Hiss Case was the question whether this sick society, which we call Western civilization, could in its extremity…
For in this century, within the next decades, will be decided for generations whether all mankind is to become Communist, whether the…

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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the… — Whittaker Chambers
...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from… — Deepak Chopra
There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in… — Lord Byron
New Yorkers are predatory about real estate. When they sense softening, they move in for the kill. — Anderson Cooper
It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
Humor implies a sure conception of the beautiful, the majestic and he true, by whose light it surveys and shape s their… — Edwin Percy Whipple
We just never know. We think we do. We think we have life figured out, and in our arrogance we become hard.… — Philip Gulley
Give others their dignity by opening and softening in your heart to them. — John de Ruiter
Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles… — Swami Vivekananda
Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was… — Jane Austen
Softening what is rigid in our hearts... — Pema Chodron

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