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Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.


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GEORGE F. BURNS I spent a year in that town, one Sunday.
GEORGE F. BURNS Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair
GEORGE F. BURNS The most important thing in acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
GEORGE F. BURNS Life's but a day at most.
GEORGE F. BURNS Retire? I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the only one left
GEORGE F. BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.
GEORGE F. BURNS Define your business goals clearly so that others can see them as you do.
GEORGE F. BURNS I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r...
GEORGE F. BURNS You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do w...
GEORGE F. BURNS The general effect of Cold War extremism was to delay rather than hasten the great change that overt...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations...
GEORGE F. KENNAN [The accords were] fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorshi...
GEORGE F. KENNAN The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Ru...
GEORGE F. KENNAN If you accept a democratic system, this means that you are prepared to put up with those of its work...
GEORGE F. KENNAN Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industri...
GEORGE F. KENNAN One attempt to reconcile the Gnostic doctrine [of the unreality of evilness] of matter with the apos...
F. F. BRUCE Commemoration of Caroline Chisholm, Social Reformer, 1877 The truth of Christ's supremacy over al...
F. F. BRUCE The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writi...
F. F. BRUCE Feast of Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers, Teacher, 367 Commemoration of Kentigern (Mungo), Missionary Bi...
F. F. BRUCE I have only been funny about seventy four per cent of the time. Yes I think that is right. Seventy-f...
WILL FERRELL I don't necessarily believe in organized religion.
WILL SMITH I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood.
WILL SMITH When you create art, the world has to wait.
WILL SMITH