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Mexicans and the Japanese had delivered steadfast denials.)

the Bolsheviks, less than 25 percent.

Origen's Platonized theology marks the birth of the Christian humanitarian conscience.

The Academy's most famous dropout was raised in Macedonia, the Texas of ancient Greece.

He believed you could do everything by formulas and fourteen points. God Himself was content with ten commandments

It is Cicero who made public speaking one of the essential tools of Western self-government and democracy.

When we realize, Pufendorf wrote, that our own self-interest dictates that we treat others as ourselves, we are ready to live among our fellow men.

Reid's maxim, "I despise philosophy and renounce its guidance; let my soul dwell in common sense.

Petrograd (St. Petersburg's new name since the outbreak of war, when the government decided that "St. Petersburg" sounded Teutonic)

My first feeling about the paper and the attitude is that it is absurd.

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity it is service.

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.

I told my three sons stories about germs more than fifty years ago as fanciful bedtime tales.

Television has spread the habit of instant reaction and stimulated the hope of instant results.

This then was English fiction, this was English criticism, and farce, after all, was but an ill-played tragedy.

The fancy that sensations are symbols and not realities hovered in his mind, and led him to speculate as to whether they could not actually be transmuted one into another.

His school-fellows thought him quite mad, and tolerated him, and indeed were very kind to him in their barbarous manner.

And Lucian felt most keenly that in his case there was a double curse; he was as isolated as Keats, and as inarticulate as his reviewers.

In my experience, his reaction was typical of many churchmen when lay people like myself try to explain the irrational using the 'God's Plan' argument. They raise an eyebrow and look at you as if you're slightly bonkers.

Love is not sufficient. It never has been. Stories that claim otherwise are lies. There's always SOMETHING after happily ever after.

What is my nothingness to the stupor that awaits you?

In the dawn, armed with a burning patience, we shall enter the splendid cities.

I ought to have a special hell for my anger, a hell for my pride, – and a hell for sex; a whole symphony of hells!

While public funds evaporate in feasts of fraternity, a bell of rosy fire rings in the clouds.