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That the world is in a bad shape is undeniable, but there is not the faintest reason in history to suppose that…
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I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a…
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If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
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But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done with fear.…
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This has been my life. I have found it worth living, and would gladly live it again if the second chance were…
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One must expect a war between U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. which will begin with the total destruction of London. I think the war…
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Power is sweet; it is a drug, the desire for which increases with a habit.
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The desire to understand the world and the desire to reform it are the two great engines of progress, without which human…
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Life is just one cup of coffee after another, and don't look for anything else.
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Almost all education has a political motive: it aims at strengthening some group, national or religious or even social, in the competition…
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Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.
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Either man will abolish war, or war will abolish man.
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Isao had never felt that he might want to be a woman. He had never wished for anything else but to be…
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The only truly new ideas [the right] has come up with in the last twenty years are (1) supply side economics, which…
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Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love! At the summit you will find yourselves united…
— Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
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...just as the edifice of all the virtues strives upward toward perfect prayer so will all these virtues be neither sturdy nor…
— John Cassian
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Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens. But always pity brought me back to earth.…
— Bertrand Russell
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Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep…
— Pat Conroy
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A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.
— Ray Bradbury
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Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow…
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The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.
— Philip Yancey
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