A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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