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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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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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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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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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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Love makes the Real of desire accessible without its tragic dimension.
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The power of hiding ourselves from one another is mercifully given, for men are wild beasts, and would devour one another but for this protection.
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Shame brings no advantage in misfortunes, for silence (of the accused) is the ally of the speaker.
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All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
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I had maybe watched 'The Apprentice' a couple of times. I didn't know that in later seasons they deported half of their contestants into tents in the backyard. They called it Trump's trailer park.
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You may think that Andrew Breitbart, Glenn Beck, Fox News, and BigGovernment-dot-com were fighting against an enemy, and the enemy was ACORN, but I do not think that's the case at all. I think the enemy they were fighting against are the media. By not covering the story, not at all ... Breitbart showed that the media is no longer merely biased. They're no longer even ignoring the news. The mainstream media is now in the news suppression business.
