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Morris West Quotes: There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.
         

There was no cure for the human condition because every man read the present and plotted the future in the light of his own past.


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Once you accept the existence of God - however you define him, however you explain your relationship to him - then you are caught forever with his presence in the center of all things.



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None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.



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All institutions are prone to corruption and to the vices of their members.



If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.



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You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.



The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.

The fact is that the learning process goes on, and so long as the voices are not stilled and the singers go on singing some of it gets through.



There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.



He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.

He had fallen into the error of all liberals: the belief that men are prepared to reform themselves, that good will attracts good will, that truth has leavening virtue of its own.





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