I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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