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“man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.”
― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

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“he who has no sympathy with myths has no sympathy with men.”
― G.K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

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“To know some Shakespeare gives you a head start in life.”
― Ken Ludwig, How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

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“We see our lives from our own point of view; that is the privilege of the weakest and humblest of us;”
― Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady

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“There is an Is." That is as much monkish credulity as St. Thomas asks of us at the start. Very few unbelievers start by asking us to believe so little. And yet, upon this sharp pin-point of reality, he rears by long logical processes that have never really been successfully overthrown, the whole cosmic system of Christendom.”
― G.K. Chesterton, St. Thomas Aquinas

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