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I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

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E. M. Forster

For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.

Changed, Character, Hold, Slow, Vanity

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Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

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History develops, art stands still.

Art, Develops, History, Literature, Stands

Love and understand the Italians, for the people are more marvellous than the land.

Land, People, Literature, Love

When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

Love, Love Is, Moments, Seldom, Thinking, World

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

Art, Creative, Men, Small

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They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?

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Charles M. Schwab

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The man who fails to give fair service during the hours for which he is paid is dishonest. The man who is not willing to give more than this is foolish.

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Thomas Paine

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I have never made it a consideration whether the subject was popular or unpopular, but whether it was right or wrong; for that which is right will become popular, and that which is wrong, though by mistake it may obtain the cry or fashion of the day, will soon lose the power of delusion, and sink into disesteem.

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Gilbert K. Chesterton

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It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

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John Polkinghorne

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I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.

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