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The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

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You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.

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Supposing everyone lived at one time what would they say. They would observe that stringing string beans is universal.

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But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

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I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

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Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

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The contemporary thing in art and literature is the thing which doesn't make enough difference to the people of that generation so that they c...

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Generally speaking, everyone is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

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What is the answer I was silent. In that case, what is the question

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Romance is everything.

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... a master-piece ... may be unwelcome but it is never dull.

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. Technology

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The first Epistle of St. John is a letter from an old man, solemnly attesting that which he had seen and touched and handled.

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To St. John the Word of God is not the Logos of the Greeks nor the Memra of the Hebrews, but true man, in whom God had become articulate.

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At a certain stage in his evolution, man himself had been able to lay hold upon a higher order of things, which raised him above the level of the beasts that perish, and enabled him to see, at least in the distance, the shining towers of the City of God.

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St. Luke again associates St. John with St. Peter in the Acts of the Apostles, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.

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The co-existence of fiery passion and exquisite tenderness in a single character is a fact of human nature which did not escape the observation of Shakespeare, its profoundest secular student.

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Of the sayings of Christ in the Synoptic Gospels that can be compared to those in the fourth Gospel, there are one or two which I venture to think can only have been recorded on the authority of St. John.

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The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed upon cloudy seas.

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