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"In wartime people took action because of what they believed in. In peacetime people were driven by their private concerns."
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"The skeptic says that the believer has lost his own mind under God. On the contrary, it is the people who follow God who are most like his children, who willingly and consciously walk in his will; but those who oppose him oppose him vainly and at their own expense, and, figuratively, seem to be more like his tools. They don't diminish his glory, but instead he still manages to use them in ways of unconsciously carrying out his will."

"You cannot force someone to believe something they do not believe, you can only manage to force them to speak or act as if they do."

"To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell."

"Though man needs to live to believe, he does not need to believe to live."

"Whatever you believe in, is true " at least to you! The question is, "How positive and empowering is it, especially in the face of adversity?"

"I don't believe Old Nick can be so very ugly,' said Aunt Jamesina reflectively. 'He wouldn't do so much harm if he was. I always think of him as a rather handsome gentleman."
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"Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her " a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone."


"The good thing about the aristocracy " German or English " was that they were easily traced, Mirabelle thought."


"It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think " the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late."


"New technologies and resources offer exciting opportunities. They democratise access to information."
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