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

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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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“When Churchill was running for office for the first time, he went door to door to ask for votes. He knocked on the door of an irritable man who, when Churchill introduced himself, said, “Vote for you? Why, I’d rather vote for the devil!” “I understand,” answered Churchill. “But in case your friend is not running, may I count on your support?”
― Gretchen Rubin, Forty Ways to Look at Winston Churchill: A Brief Account of a Long Life

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