You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
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The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.Morris West
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.
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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.
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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people.
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Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!
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