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“Nothing matters very much and most things don't matter at all.”
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“We survey the past, and see that its history is of blood and tears, of helpless blundering, of wild revolt, of stupid acquiescence, of empty aspirations. We sound the future, and learn that after a period, long compared with the individual life, but short indeed compared with the divisions of time open to our investigation, the energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest. Matter will know itself no longer. 'Imperishable monuments' and 'immortal deeds,' death itself, and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. Nor will anything that is be better or be worse for all that the labour, genius, devotion, and suffering of man have striven through countless generations to effect.
Arthur Balfour, The Foundations of Belief, eighth edition, pp. 30-31.”
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Arthur Balfour, The Foundations of Belief, eighth edition, pp. 30-31.”
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“We have not merely stumbled on truth in spite of error and illusion, which is odd, but because of error and illusion, which is even odder.”
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“Few persons are prevented from thinking themselves right by the reflection that, if they be right, the rest of the world is wrong.”
― Theism and Humanism : The Book that Influenced C. S. Lewis
― Theism and Humanism : The Book that Influenced C. S. Lewis
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
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Ask with urgency and passion.
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
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Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
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The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
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I never forgive, but I always forget.
2.
Ask with urgency and passion.
3.
I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
4.
Biography should be written by an acute enemy.
He has only half learned the art of reading who has not added to it the more refined art of skipping and skimming.
5.
The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done.”
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