The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.
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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.Alfred North Whitehead
No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
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Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
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Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.
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Religion is the last refuge of human savagery.
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I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
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