The test of happiness is gratitude.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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