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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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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
— Edmund Burke
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The pressure people put on themselves and the rivalry between the teams is much more marked. And I think that's a good…
— Eric Cantona
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I think what has happened, actually, is that September 11 has given a spur, a renewed urgency, to dialogue between the great…
— George Carey
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Hunger's a great spur.
— Robert Carlyle
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The only sustainable way to increase demand for vacant houses is to spur the formation of new households. Admitting more skilled immigrants,…
— Alan Greenspan
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise. That last infirmity of noble mind. To scorn delights, and live laborious…
— John Milton
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Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise
— John Milton
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I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by…
— Bill Gates
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Republican leaders have made clear they have no plans to use the power of government to stimulate the economy, invest in job…
— Dennis Kucinich
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If we return to the two faces of individualism - individualism as the spur of energy, initiative, and imagination; and individualism as…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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Young horses who cannot bear the whip or spur find life hard. At every smart they start forward and rush to their…
— Selma Lagerlöf
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