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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

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A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls o...more

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The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps of lopped-off limbs; he is also a demure, ...more

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And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually...more

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When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "...more

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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse, he understands his ...more

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When a man is getting worse, he understands his own badness less and less.

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The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper dea...more

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Man is to be understood only in his relation to God.

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Man is now a horror to God and himself and a creature ill-adapted to the universe not because God made him so but because he has made himself so by th...more