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.
G. K. CHESTERTONI believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The 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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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