If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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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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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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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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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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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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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