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Offline MysteRy

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« Reply #15 on: December 14, 2015, 05:55:31 PM »
Many people believe they are attracted by God or by Nature when they are only repelled by Man.
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« Reply #16 on: December 14, 2015, 05:55:54 PM »
It is said that Mr. Gladstone could persuade most people of most things and himself of anything.
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« Reply #17 on: December 14, 2015, 05:56:20 PM »
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed when that little wisdom is its own.
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« Reply #18 on: December 14, 2015, 05:56:43 PM »
A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.
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« Reply #19 on: December 14, 2015, 05:57:12 PM »
The happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so.
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« Reply #20 on: December 14, 2015, 05:57:41 PM »
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
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« Reply #21 on: December 14, 2015, 05:58:02 PM »
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.
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« Reply #22 on: December 14, 2015, 05:58:29 PM »
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
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« Reply #23 on: December 14, 2015, 05:58:53 PM »
I have never understood why it should be considered derogatory to the Creator to suppose that He has a sense of humor.
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« Reply #24 on: December 14, 2015, 05:59:17 PM »
It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
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« Reply #25 on: December 14, 2015, 05:59:40 PM »
Man as we know him is a poor creature; but he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction.
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« Reply #26 on: December 14, 2015, 06:00:05 PM »
There are two kinds of fools: one says 'This is old therefore it is good'; the other says 'This is new therefore it is better.'
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« Reply #27 on: December 14, 2015, 06:00:37 PM »
The nations which have put mankind and posterity most in their debt have been small states - Israel Athens Florence Elizabethan England.
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« Reply #28 on: December 14, 2015, 06:01:01 PM »
Public opinion a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.
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« Reply #29 on: December 14, 2015, 06:01:32 PM »
Public opinion: a vulgar impertinent anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for any one of us who is not content to be the average man.
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