The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
G. K. CHESTERTONHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The past is not what it was.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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