The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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