Georges Bernanos Quotes
Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.
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I like to look good on the golf course.
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The West Indians and Pakistanis play one-day cricket so well because they play for English counties.
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The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
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McCain is the kid who was really cool in middle school but never got high school game and people are sick of him acting like he's still popular.
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is income taxes.
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The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.
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But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
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I don't care about motivation. I care about credibility.
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It's really quite a situation. It's ridiculous. I make $200,000, $300,000 a night. For years I was working little dives, and if I got $700 a week, I'd say, "Wow, I'm really cooking.
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When our minds are filled with light, there is no room for darkness.
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If younger adults turn away from smoking, the industry will decline, just as a population which does not give birth will eventually dwindle.
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If you are not careful, soon you will have men locking themselves in dungeons so that you can rescue them.
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Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
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What is your peace all about? What is your comfort all about? Where do you get your love? Where do you get your talents? And I can turn to them and say without blinking, ‘Jesus Christ.’
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The object of the patrol method is not so much saving the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy.
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There is no use in talking as if forgiveness were easy. For we find that the work of forgiveness has to be done over and over again.
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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.
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I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
