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"There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil."
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"It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to."

"The world is all the richer for having a devil in it, so long as we keep our foot upon his neck."

"The devil himself had probably redesigned Hell in the light of information he had gained from observing airport layouts."

"But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling."
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"Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed."

"No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it."

"True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason."

"Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language."

"The total absence of humor from the Bible is one of the most singular things in all literature."

"No one who achieves success does so without acknowledging the help of others. The wise and confident acknowledge this help with gratitude."

"Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern."

"The absolute pacifist is a bad citizen; times come when force must be used to uphold right, justice and ideals."
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