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"The objection to an aristocracy is that it is a priesthood without a god."
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"Society has a herd psychology, so until we have more good shepherds we are lost."

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"St Thomas (Aqinas) loved books and lived on books... When asked for what he thanked God most, he answered simply, 'I have understood every page I ever read'."

"Christmas is built upon a beautiful and intentional paradox, that the birth of the homeless should be celebrated in every home."

"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."

"The things said most confidently by advanced persons to crowded audiences are generally those opposite to the fact, it is actually our truisms that are untrue."

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

"He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican."
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