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True wisdom comes from the overcoming of suffering and sin. All true wisdom is therefore touched with sadness.

Whittaker Chambers

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Whittaker Chambers
Age: 60 †
Born: 1901
Born: April 1
Died: 1961
Died: July 9
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Sin
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Wisdom
Suffering
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Sadness

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Life is not worth living for which a man is not prepared to die at any moment.
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I know that I am leaving the winning side for the losing side, but it is better to die on the losing side than to live under Communism.
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Experience had taught me that innocence seldom utters outraged shrikes. Guilt does. Innocence is a mighty shield, and the man or woman covered by it, is much more likely to answer calmly: 'My life is blameless. Look into it, if you like, for you will find nothing.' That is the tone of innocence.
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The crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God.
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In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.
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Every man is crucified upon the cross of himself.
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Human societies, like human beings, live by faith and die when faith dies.
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Political freedom, as the Western world has known it, is only a political reading of the Bible.
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My children, as long as you live, the shadow of the Hiss Case will brush you. In every pair of eyes that rests on you, you will see pass, like a cloud passing behind a woods in winter, the memory of your father - dissembled in friendly eyes, lurking in unfriendly eyes.
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Anybody looking for a quiet life has picked the wrong century to born in.
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When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.
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