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“Media is just a word that has come to mean bad journalism.”

Quote by Graham Greene

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Graham Greene was a renowned British writer born on October 2, 1904. His works are characterized by deep insight and unique narrative techniques, and he is hailed as one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century. Greene's writing spans a variety of themes, including spy novels, religious novels, and noir novels. more

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“Nature is mighty. Art is mighty. Artifice is weak. For nature is the work of a mightier power than man. Art is the work of man under the guidance and inspiration of a mightier power. Artifice is the work of mere man, in the imbecility of his mimic understanding.”

Men Art Inspiration Understanding Art Is Weak Mere Guidance Artifice Imbecility

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“It is well for us that we are born babies in intellect. Could we understand half what mothers say and do to their infants, we should be filled with a conceit of our own importance, which would render us insupportable through life. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it.”

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“Forms and regularity of proceeding, if they are not justice, partake much of the nature of justice, which, in its highest sense, is the spirit of distributive order.”

Ifs Form Spirit Order Justice Highest Ceremony Proceeding Regularity

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.”

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“I could hardly feel much confidence in a man who had never been imposed upon.”

Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.”

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Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

“Mythology is not religion. It may rather be regarded as the ancient substitute, the poetical counterpart, for dogmatic theology.”

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Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

“Instead of watching the bird as it flies above our heads, we chase his shadow along the ground; and, finding we cannot grasp it, we conclude it to be nothing.”

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Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed

“Moral prejudices are the stopgaps of virtue; and, as is the case with other stopgaps, it is often more difficult to get either out or in through them than through any other part of the fence.”

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Book:Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

Source: Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. Third edition. First Series

“Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.”

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