We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONA thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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