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We are supposed to be on the side of goodness in the sense that we need it, not that we are it.
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The emotions that sustain religious belief are all, in fact, deeply ordinary and deeply recognisable to anybody who has ever made their way across the common ground of human experience as an adult.
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If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to be a good-looking single person between 20 and 35, with excellent muscle-definition and/or an excellent figure, and a large disposable income.
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Emotions can certainly be misleading: they can fool you into believing stuff that is definitely, demonstrably untrue.
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Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Francis Spufford
Born:
1964
(age 60)
Bio:
Francis Spufford is an English author.
Known for:
Golden Hill (2016)
Red Plenty (2010)
The child that books built (2002)
Backroom boys (2003)
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