Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Most Christians are superstitious rather than pious, and except for the name of Christ differ hardly at all from superstitious pagans.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
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Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
~ Henry James
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Via @ibm
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The 1930s — a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence because there were so many things that could not be said any other way.
~ Wilfrid Sheed
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Men gather the clouds, and then they complain of the tempests that follow.
~ Joseph de Maistre
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Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
~ Niels Bohr
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