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Archibald MacLeish Quotes: If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.
         

If God is God He is not good, if God is good He is not God; take the even, take the odd.


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There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.



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Once you permit those who are convinced of their own superior rightness to censor and silence and suppress those who hold contrary opinions, just at that moment the citadel has been surrendered.



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The only thing about a man that is a man . . . is his mind. Everything else you can find in a pig or a horse.



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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.



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As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.



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