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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

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A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

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Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

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We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.

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Oh, the frontier of hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

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We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?

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