The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONStick 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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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