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The body of the Unknown Soldier has come home, but his spirit will wander with that of his brothers. There will be no rest for his soul until the great democracy of death has been translated into the unity of life.

— Heywood Broun

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Nobody talks so constantly about God as those who insist that there is no God.

There is no proselyter half so energetic as the hard-shelled atheist.

The artist has never been a dictator, since he understands better than anybody else the variations in human personality.

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.

Lin Yutang in The Wisdom of China and India (1942)

Men build bridges and throw railroads across deserts, and yet they contend successfully that the job of sewing on a button is beyond them. Accordingly, they don’t have to sew buttons.

Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations: A Collection of Approximately (2012)

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

Richard Francis Burton The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

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