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This is old, therefore it is good the other says, This is new, therefore it is better.

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If the universe is running down like a clock, the clock must have been wound up at a date which we could name if we knew it. The world, if it is to have an end in time, must have had a beginning in time.
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Theater is, of course, a reflection of life. Maybe we have to improve life before we can hope to improve theater.
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Deliberate cruelty to our defenceless and beautiful little cousins is surely one of the meanest and most detestable vices of which a human being can be guilty.
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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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Take away fear, and the battle of Freedom is half won.
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Don't get up from the feast of life without paying for your share of it.
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The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.
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In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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Action is the normal completion of the act of will which begins as prayer. That action is not always external, but it is always some kind of effective energy.
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Boredom is a certain sign that we are allowing our faculties to rust in idleness.
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It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.
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There is no limit to the noble aspirations which the words my country may evoke.
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The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.
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Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense.
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They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great.
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All faith consists essentially in the recognition of a world of spiritual values behind, yet not apart from, the world of natural phenomena.
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Don't break the silence unless you can improve on it.
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The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel its poverty by how little.
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