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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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Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
— Charlie Chaplin
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
— Emile M. Cioran
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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen lurk, and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes…
— Honore de Balzac
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We need the tonic of wildness and...nature.
— Henry David Thoreau
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The riding of young horses is an excellent nerve tonic.
— Unknown Author
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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for…
— Oliver Sacks
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It's nine o'clock on a Saturday, the regular crowd shuffles in / There's an old man sitting next to me making love…
— Billy Joel
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My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
— Chiang Kai-shek
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Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted…
— William James
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I really need a gin and tonic.
— Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall
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The role of Barbara, in Music for Millions, was literally a tonic for me
— June Allyson
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