Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
G. K. CHESTERTONAngels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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