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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 0bbe5e2 | We cannot allow quibbles to stand in the way of the truth. | John Brunner | ||
| be5ec21 | Rumors that the sun is out at Santa Ynez are without foundation," the radio said. | John Brunner | ||
| 9d57c24 | Yes, for most people nowadays television is their only contact with the world beyond their work." | John Brunner | ||
| 9467a15 | How can a man be so brilliant and so obtuse? | John Brunner | ||
| 46acdf1 | There's an old saying: The genius sees what happens, but the plodder sees what he expects to happen. | John Brunner | ||
| 27ac6ab | Most rich people get rich by taking what they want without paying for it. It's the way of the world. | John Brunner | ||
| f6f0d6d | If there is a hell, perhaps it consists in living up to all one's promises. | John Brunner | ||
| 308471a | No faith can possibly suffice. It's always undermined by ignorance. | John Brunner | ||
| 4a74988 | The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. | John Buchan | ||
| 325594d | We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. | John Buchan | ||
| 7bd79d7 | The Simple Life is the last refuge of complicated and restless souls. | John Buchan | ||
| 01d95de | The secret of life is to find out what one really wants. | John Buchan | ||
| ddb4edb | It is only a dying cause which can attain to perfect taste. | John Buchan | ||
| 8eaf0d1 | It was a very happy time, but like all happy times it had no landmarks. | John Buchan | ||
| 5c5fdd5 | I never mind choler in a man if he have also honesty and good sense. | John Buchan | ||
| 97e75ef | Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective. | John Buchan | ||
| dcfdac8 | Her voice had a thrill in it like music, frosty music. | John Buchan | ||
| bbe4533 | L]oyalty and religion have many meanings, and self-interest is a skilled interpreter. | John Buchan | ||
| 90a020a | Boldness, and still boldness, was the only wisdom. To be cautious was to be rash. | John Buchan | ||
| 596c75a | What can stand against loyalty? It is the faith that moves mountains. | John Buchan | ||
| 6f1fbad | Honest intention will not cure faulty practice. | John Buchan | ||
| aeec4d5 | T]here was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity. | John Buchan | ||
| c9bc10b | On the newspapers of the Craw Press:] Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking. | John Buchan | ||
| 9c83fbb | W]ithout humour you cannot run a sweetie-shop, let alone a nation. | John Buchan | ||
| 8ddc26b | I always try to suit my clothes to my company. It is the only way to be inconspicuous. | John Buchan | ||
| e81457b | If anyone makes trouble I've advised him to dot him one on the jaw in the best British style. | John Buchan | ||
| 2c02283 | It's the Idea that wins every time -- the Idea with brains and guts behind it. | John Buchan | ||
| b0bd611 | To live for a time close to great minds is the best kind of education. | John Buchan | ||
| b76dd69 | He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. | John Buchan | ||
| 06bf322 | Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. | John Buchan | ||
| aabd0c9 | We had our pride shattered, and without humility there can be no humanity. | John Buchan | ||
| f9d101e | I have heard an atheist defined as a man who had no invisible means of support. | John Buchan | ||
| 35c51a8 | See that your cause be good, else Christ will not undertake it. | John Bunyan | ||
| c2bc2d8 | When a man's cause is good, it will sufficiently plead for itself, yea, and for its master too. | John Bunyan | ||
| 93f4482 | The name of the slough was Despond. | John Bunyan | ||
| 5e8a785 | Every fat must stand upon its own bottom. | John Bunyan | ||
| 2585f53 | The palace Beautiful. | John Bunyan | ||
| 60a3176 | It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. | John Bunyan | ||
| 54aab27 | They came to the Delectable Mountains. | John Bunyan | ||
| 6f03755 | the Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind. | John Burroughs | ||
| 674f938 | We are here to see and contemplate the great spectacle. | John Burroughs | ||
| c197abf | Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode. | John Burroughs | ||
| c8be75a | The truths of naturalism do not satisfy the moral and religious nature. | John Burroughs | ||
| 83148d7 | Christians, awake! salute the happy morn, Whereon the Saviour of mankind was born. | John Byrom |