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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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The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
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For better or worse, man is the tool-using animal, and as such he has become the lord of creation. When he is lord also of himself, he will deserve his self-chosen title homo sapiens.
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There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise? Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.
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Civilization is being poisoned by its own waste products.
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We should think of the church as an orchestra in which the different churches play on different instruments while a Divine Conductor calls the tune.
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Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.
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Beneath the dingy uniformity of international fashions in dress, man remains what he has always been a splendid fighting animal, a self-sacrificing hero, and a blood thirsty savage.
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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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Let none of us delude himself by supposing that honesty is always the best policy. It is not.
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A man is never so truly and intensely himself as when he is most possessed by God. It is impossible to say where, in the spiritual life, the human will leaves off and divine grace begins.
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Let us remember, when we are inclined to be disheartened, that the private soldier is a poor judge of the fortunes of a great battle.
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The fruit of the tree of knowledge always drives man from some paradise or other and even the paradise of fools is not an unpleasant abode while it is habitable.
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Faith is an act of self-consecration, in which the will, the intellect, and the affections all have their place.
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Man, as we know him, is a poor creature he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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The Devil deserves zero tolerance.
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The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.
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There are no rewards or punishments - only consequences.
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The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.
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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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Gambling is a disease of barbarians superficially civilized.
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