All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.

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If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine.

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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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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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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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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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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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There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

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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.

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Man is a creature who walks in two worlds and traces upon the walls of his cave the wonders and the nightmare experiences of his spiritual pilgrimage.

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