One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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 past is not what it was.
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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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