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    Charles Darwin
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    Alas! A scientific man ought to have no wishes, no affections -- a mere heart of stone.

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    Paul Tillich
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    The question our century puts before us is: is it possible to regain the lost dimension, the encounter with the Holy, the dimension which cuts through the world of subjectivity and objectivity and goe...

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    Ricky Gervais
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    The existence of God is not subjective. He either exists or he doesn’t. It’s not a matter of opinion. You can have your own opinions. But you can’t have your own facts.

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    Peter Kreeft
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    Blessedness… is an objective state, not a subjective feeling.

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    Jiddu Krishnamurti
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    To observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.

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    Helen Keller
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    I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering criticisms that teach but one thing: there are as many opinions ...

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    Richard John Neuhaus
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    The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, not under its jurisdiction.’ In a republic of fren, every prejudice, every aspiration, every moral discernment has access to the public squa...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.

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    Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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    Everyone is entitled to his own opinions, but not to his own facts.

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    Samuel Johnson
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    Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.

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    Frederick Buechner
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    It is not the objective proof of God's existence that we want but the experience of God's presence. That is the miracle we are really after, and that is also, I think, the miracle that we real...

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    Jean Danielou
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    Philippians 1:9-10, Proverbs 18:2, 1 Corinthians 13:12, Romans 12:3, Isaiah 66:2
    Truth consists in the mind giving to things the importance they have in reality.

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    Matt Haig
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    Let’s state the obvious, because the obvious is easy to take for granted and forget. You are not other people. You are you. You have no control over other people. You have no absolute control over wha...

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    Christian Smith
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    Galatians 5:22-23, Romans 2:14-15, Matthew 22:37-39, Isaiah 1:17, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 119:9-11, Micah 6:8
    “Moral”…is an orientation toward understandings about what is right and wrong, just and unjust, that are not established by our own actual desires or preferences but instead are believed to exist apar...

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    C. S. Lewis
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    The moment you say that one set of moral ideas can be better than another, you are, in fact, measuring them both by a standard, saying that one of them conforms to that standard more nearly than the o...

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    John Rawls
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    Galatians 3:28, Isaiah 56:1, Proverbs 31:8-9, Leviticus 19:15, James 2:1
    The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.

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    Rowan Williams
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    [T]here is no goodness that is not bodily and realistic and local.

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    Epictetus
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    Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Romans 1:21-23, Romans 12:2, Proverbs 1:7, Jeremiah 9:23-24, Matthew 22:37-40, Colossians 2:8, 1 Corinthians 1:18-21
    [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

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    Will Durant
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    The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

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    Oscar Wilde
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    Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

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    W. E. B. Du Bois
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    Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, - this is the soul of democ...

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    Isaac Asimov
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    Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism. It's a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe and se...

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    Brené Brown
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    To me, constructive criticism is when people take ownership of their ideas. That's why I don't listen to anything that's anonymous. But it's hard; when there's something hurtful ou...

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Equality is not only a matter of mathematics and geometry, but it’s a matter of psychology…It is possible to have a quantitative equality and qualitative inequality.

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    Dallas Willard
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    The disappearance of moral knowledge, in the manner reviewed, is not an expression of truth rationally secured, but is the outcome of an historical drift, with no rational justification at all or only...

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    Charles Hodge
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    All moral obligation resolves itself into the obligation of conformity to the will of God.

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    David Kinnaman
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    The motivation of transparency is important. The culture teaches people to be candid and blunt, but this usually revolves around self-centeredness – you have a right to express your true feelings and ...

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    Robert Andrews Millikan
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    The impossibility of real science and real religion ever conflicting becomes evident when one examines the purpose of science and the purpose of religion. The purpose of science is to develop – withou...

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    Timothy Keller
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    To not be political is to be political.
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