One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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"I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Always Be Ready For Anything that Comes: Bananas, Chips, College, an Opportunity, so when it does yo... DANIEL OJEDA If you believe in yourself anything is possible. MILEY CYRUS Even if readers claim that they 'take it all with a grain of salt', they do not really. They yearn t... IRIS MURDOCH She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO There are types of people who want to have leverage over other people's lives. For no other reason t... C. JOYBELL C. If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings f... SAM KEAN In the beginning there was nothing, and then god created "me". BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I always enjoyed studying languages and I learned from my Master that He wanted humans to be called ... KATE MCGAHAN Love: the impossible combination of being IN the deep end and being OFF the deep end. JENNIFER HARRISON If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN The more God is glorified the more man is energic and the more satan is weak. 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MALCOLM FORBES If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleague... MALCOLM FORBES When you cease to dream you cease to live. MALCOLM FORBES It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it. MALCOLM FORBES Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. MALCOLM FORBES Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, ... MALCOLM FORBES Thinking well to be wise: planning well, wiser: doing well wisest and best of all. MALCOLM FORBES Failure is success if we learn from it. MALCOLM FORBES It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. MALCOLM FORBES Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections. MALCOLM FORBES The best vision is insight. MALCOLM FORBES The news comes somewhat late, but I'm glad to hear it nevertheless. MALCOLM CAMPBELL Hurry boys, hurry, we have to make a quick change or the hour will be up. MALCOLM CAMPBELL The tires were scorching hot, in fact I burned my fingers on one. MALCOLM CAMPBELL English history is all about men liking their fathers, and American history is all about men hating ... MALCOLM BRADBURY My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds... MALCOLM BRADBURY You Liberals think that goats are just sheep from broken homes. MALCOLM BRADBURY If God had been a liberal, we wouldn't have had the Ten Commandments - we'd have the Ten Sug... MALCOLM BRADBURY Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail. MALCOLM BRADBURY Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular f... MALCOLM ARNOLD Although I enjoyed writing Film Music it was always a means to an end, in that it enabled me to keep... MALCOLM ARNOLD Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there ... MALCOLM ARNOLD Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battl... MALCOLM TURNBULL