Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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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 real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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