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Mild success can be explainable by skills and labor. Wild success is attributable to variance.
“Only the Catholic Church protested against the Hitlerian onslaught on liberty. Up till then I had not been interested in the Church, but today I feel a great admiration for the Church, which alone has had the courage to struggle for spiritual truth and moral liberty”
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“To make light of philosophy is to be a true philosopher.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.”
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“I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am”
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“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?”
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
The Inklings
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The Inklings was an informal literary discussion group associated with the University of Oxford, England, between the 1930s and the 1960s. Its most re ...more
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