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"Nobody can honestly think of himself as a strong character because however successful he may be in overcoming them he is necessarily aware of the doubts and temptations that accompany every important choice."
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"Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."

"In the middle of the storm, the 'a' of the atheist drops!"

"A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt."

"Doubt is the first ray of illumination."

"You go down some street - no doubt it's there, and we have to do something about it, and our programmes are designed to do that - but if that's a picture of Newcastle, it's not the one I recognise and I bet none in the North East do either."
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"You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people."


"May it not be that, just as we have to have faith in Him, God has to have faith in us and, considering the history of the human race so far, may it not be that "faith" is even more difficult for Him than it is for us?"


"The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own."


"Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate."


"A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do."
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