If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

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With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Its so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Its so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written...

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written...

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our...

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our...

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be...

It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be...

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some...

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written...

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written...

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies...

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies...

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done...

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done...

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All...

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more...

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more...

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to...

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There...

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...

What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by...

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...

You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to...