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Charles R. Moore
Charles R. Moore quotes
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“A country scratching a lazy irritation at sagging doorjambs and late trains, whose greatest attribute is a collective, smelly tolerance, where a chap will put up with almost everything, which means he won't care about anything enough to get out of a chair.A country of public insouciance and private, grubby guilt, where you can believe anything as long as you don't believe it too fervently. A country where the highest aspiration is for a quiet life.”
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“Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”
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“I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true”
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“The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.”
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“I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.”
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“Hope lies to mortals And most believe her, But man's deceiver Was never mine.”
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“The only person who is a worse liar than a faith healer is his patient.”
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“The work that Christ started but could not finish, I - Adolf Hitler - will conclude.”
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“He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.”
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“Pray and doubt; you’ll do without. Pray and believe; you will receive.”
