“it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.”

― John Maynard Keynes, The General Theory of Employment

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“I am not asking anyone to accept Christianity if his best reasoning tells him that the weight of the evidence is against it.”

― C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

“As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger.”

― George W. Bush, State of the Union Address

“Annihilation itself is no death to evil. Only good where evil was, is evil dead. An evil thing must live with its evil until it chooses to be good. That alone is the slaying of evil.”

― George MacDonald, Lilith

“The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred.”

― Honoré de Balzac, Father Goriot

“it is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works, and that such curses as that of Aporat's are really deadly.”

― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“For one moment our lives met—our souls touched.”

― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

“Alas! . . . that so dull a spirit should be lodged in so goodly a form! Alas! that such an enterprise as the regeneration of England should turn on a hinge so imperfect!”

― Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

“In all cases positive palaeontological evidence may be implicitly trusted; negative evidence is worthless, as experience has so often shown.”

― Charles Darwin, On The Origin of Species

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