The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.Alfred North Whitehead
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Through and through the world is infested with quantity To talk sense is to talk quantities. It is no use saying the nation is large.... How large It is no use saying the radium is scarce.... How scarce You cannot evade quantity. You may fly to poetry and music, and quantity and number will face you in your rhythms and your octaves.
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The essence of Christianity is the appeal to the life of Christ as a revelation of the nature of God and of God's agency in the world. The record is fragmentary, inconsistent, and uncertain.... But there can be no doubt as to what elements in the record have evoked a response from all that is best in human nature. The Mother, the Child, and the bare manger the lowly man, homeless and self-forgetful, with his message of peace, love, and sympathy the suffering, the agony, the tender words as life ebbed, the final despair and the whole with the authority of supreme victory.
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It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.
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The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.
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