"In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God."

God, Family, Children, Country

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"In our country today, very few children are raised to believe that their principal destiny is to serve their family, their country, or God."

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"Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God."

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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"It is very lonely sometimes, trying to play God."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, American Writer

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"Conscience is God present in man."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

Voltaire, French Writer

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"God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause."

Orson Scott Card, American Writer

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"White... is not a mere absence of colour; it is a shining and affirmative thing, as fierce as red, as definite as black... God paints in many colours; but He never paints so gorgeously, I had almost said so gaudily, as when He paints in white."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled."

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"I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam."

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"What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all."

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"What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble?"

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"I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies."

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"All the time a person is a child he is both a child and learning to be a parent. After he becomes a parent he becomes predominantly a parent reliving childhood."

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"Trust yourself, you know more than you think you do."

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"When women are encouraged to be competitive, too many of them become disagreeable."

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