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There Is Something Ridiculous And Even Quite Indecent In An Individual Claiming To Be Happy. Still More A People Or A Nation Making Such A Claim. The Pursuit Of Happiness Is Without Any Question The Most Fatuous Which Could Possibly Be Undertaken. This Lamentable Phrase - The Pursuit Of Happiness - Is Responsible For A Good Part Of The Ills And Miseries Of The Modern World.

What Is Called Western Civilization Is In An Advanced State Of Decomposition, And Another Dark Ages Will Soon Be Upon Us, If, Indeed, It Has Not Already Begun. With The Media, Especially Television, Governing All Our Lives, As They Indubitably Do, It Is Easily Imaginable That This Might Happen Without Our Noticing...by Accustoming Us To The Gradual Deterioration Of Our Values.

I Think That President [dwight] Eisenhower Was... Did The Most Marvelous Job In The War, Not Really A Military Job: A Public Relations Job, And It Was Essential That There Should Be A Public Relations Job Done In The Post That He Had.

The Greatest Artists, Saints, Philosophers, And, Until Quite Recent Times, Scientists... Have All Assumed That The New Testament Promise Of Eternal Life Is Valid.... I'd Rather Be Wrong With Dante And Shakespeare And Milton, With Augustine Of Hippo And Francis Of Assisi, With Dr. Johnson, Blake, And Dostoevsky Than Right With Voltaire, Rousseau, The Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, And Bernard Shaw.

In His Own Lifetime Jesus Made No Impact On History. This Is Something That I Cannot But Regard As A Special Dispensation On God's Part, And, I Like To Think, Yet Another Example Of The Ironical Humour Which Informs So Many Of His Purposes. To Me, It Seems Highly Appropriate That The Most Important Figure In All History Should Thus Escape The Notice Of Memoirists, Diarists, Commentators, All The Tribe Of Chroniclers Who Even Then Existed