The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
G. K. CHESTERTONI have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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When 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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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