You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONImpartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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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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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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