That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised — but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
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That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised

— but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and the cruel people to the top and it all slides back into misery and ruin.
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We regard God as an airman regards his parachute — it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it.
There is always hope if we keep an unsolved problem fairly in view — there’s none if we pretend it’s not there.
There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerne — our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them.
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good — a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right.
Reason may win truths — without Faith she will retain them just so long as Satan pleases.
A man who has lived in many places is not likely to be deceived by the local errors of his native village — the scholar has lived in many times and is therefore in some degree immune from the great cataract of nonsense that pours from the press and the microphone of his own age.
To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth — to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is “remains.” To be a complete man means to have the passions obedient to the will and the will offered to God: to have been a man – to be an ex-man or “damned ghost” – would presumably mean to consist of a will utterly centered in its self and passions utterly uncontrolled by the will.
He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods — the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.
Joy is not a substitute for sex — sex is very often a substitute for Joy. I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for Joy.
The anthology was not a best-seller — art as a weapon seldom is.
I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and u — the little daily dose.
We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us — we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.