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Democracy is more vindictive than Cabinets. The wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.' Penetrating words, and he had no idea just how horribly true they would prove over the next fifty years.

Reality,' sa molesworth 2, 'is so unspeakably sordid it make me shudder'.

Guilt, if cultivated in a Christian client, can render their Christianity worthless to themselves and others.

It was like magic, but so much of magic is about misdirection, whereas so much of redemption is straightforward and ordinary, piercing true and lit with surprise.

Man is free Woyzeck. Man is the ultimate expression of the individual urge to freedom.

A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

My entire learning process is slow, because I have no visual memory.

The serious study of dissociated minds will allow us to map out the basic neurologic networks that will shed light on what constitutes a normal personality.

Now, of course, most oratory deals with matters of probability, not certainty, and most evidence is in the realm of the probable, not the scientifically demonstrable

For a Catholic kid in parochial school, the only way to survive the beatings - by classmates, not the nuns - was to be the funny guy.

People called '28 Days' and '28 Weeks' zombie movies, and they're not! It's some sort of virus they're not dead.

Always interline a contract before signing it, merely to impress the Party of the First Part. The one who puts his signature to Articles of Agreement drawn up by the other fellow is establishing a dangerous precedent.

For parlor use, the vague generality is a life saver.

Jennie was a soprano. Not a regular soprano, but a country-town soprano, of the kind often used for augmenting grief at a funeral. Her voice came from a point about two inches above the right eye.

To focus on the objective price rather than on the subjective experience of consuming the good itself stabilizes my behvaior toward it.

I am saying to you that to me the Constitution of the United States is just as much from my Heavenly Father as the Ten Commandments

George put those grapes back....she's a masons wife.

I hold that all the evil we know on earth finds in this violence done to love its true and legitimate birth.

Today's churchless adults are not remarkably less favorable toward churches in their community; if anything, there is simply a growing "yawn

But it does mean we should be wary about "using" our relationships with churchless friends as means to the end of getting them to church.

A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.