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The people has no definite disbelief in the temples of theology. The people has a very fiery and practical disbelief in the temples of physical science.

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somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

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There is a case for telling the truth; there is a case for avoiding the scandal; but there is no possible defense for the man who tells the scandal, but does not tell the truth

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For they (capitalists) hold as their chief heresy, in a coarser form, the fundamental falsehood that things are not made to be used but made to be sold. All the collapse of their commercial system in their own time has been due to that fallacy of forcing things on a market where there was no market; of continually increasing the power of supply without increasing the power of demand; of briefly, of always considering the man who sells the potato and never considering the man who eats it.

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At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper. . . .

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Before the Roman came to Rye or out to severn strode, / The rolling English drunkard made the rolling English road.

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All democrats object to men being disqualified by the accident of birth; tradition objects to their being disqualified by the accident of death.

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A change of opinions is almost unknown in an elderly military man.

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.

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It is not merely true that a creed unites men. Nay, a difference of creed unites men - so long as it is a clear difference. A boundary unites. Many a magnanimous Moslem and chivalrous Crusader must have been nearer to each other, because they were both dogmatists, than any two agnostics. "I say God is One," and "I say God is One but also Three," that is the beginning of a good quarrelsome, manly friendship.

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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

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To say that a man is an idealist is merely to say that he is a man.

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When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility.

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If man is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust.

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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

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The Museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see with awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self- education to stuff himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one indigestible meal.

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With every step of our lives we enter into the middle of some story which we are certain to misunderstand.

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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.

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Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze.

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Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest. But what does he do if there is no forest? He grows a forest to hide it in.

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