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" Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true. "

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" Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. "

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" Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them. "

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" A good government remains the greatest of human blessings and no nation has ever enjoyed it. "

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" Bereavement is the sharpest challenge to our trust in God; if faith can overcome this, there is no mountain which it cannot remove. "

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" To marry is to get a binocular view of life. "

" Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love. "

" In praising science, it does not follow that we must adopt the very poor philosophies which scientific men have constructed. In philosophy they have much more to learn than to teach. "

" We tolerate shapes in human beings that would horrify us if we saw them in a horse. "

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" I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out. "