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The Queen was saying only the other day that London property prices are so high that she doesn't know how she'd cope without Buckingham Palace,' Princess Margaret explained to a sympathetic Peter Porlock.

If the Watson-Scotts were just a little too obscure, at least everyone was agreed that Bridget was flavour of the month and he was a lucky dog to have her.

Despite all their rooftop antics, the only proposition they really had to offer was that luck multiplied by time transubstantiated matter.

If our failure to consistently worship the true God is the key feature of sin, we are sinners all.

When psychological needs, rather than sin, are seen as our primary problem, not only is our self-understanding affected, but the gospel itself is changed.

If we make such comparisons, we might be tempted not to speak of the suffering from our hearts to the Lord because we would consider it whining, which it certainly is not.

The perceived meaninglessness of work is often part of depression. It usually, however, is a sign of depression rather than a cause. Death.

The key to learning the fear of the Lord is to stay in Scripture. When you are in the Scripture, pray that God would teach you that he is the Holy One.

Maybe this is the beginning of madness . . . Forgive me for what I am saying. Read it . . . quietly, quietly. —OSIP MANDELSTAM

Fescue poured the remains of his wine into my ocean. "Until then we need a degree of focus." "Focus yourself," I said, turning away.

Must you respect a man to be in his service?" "No," he answered carefully. "But since it helps to be paid, you must respect the fullness of his pockets.

In 381, he attended the general council held at Constantinople, and joined the other bishops in condemning the Macedonian heretics.

I can't not put humor in a book.

If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.

The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.

Danger makes men classical, and all greatness, after all, is rooted in risk.

The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence cynicism.

The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion. The religion which based on experience, which refuses dogmatic. If there's any religion that would cope the scientific needs it will be Buddhism....

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

When I read the script, I liked the script very much and I thought it was a marvelous part for her, because I think it is a change of pace. I mean, we know how wonderful she is in romantic comedy.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

Objective reality, the world view produced by the spirit of scientific inquiry, is the myth of our time.