How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The past is not what it was.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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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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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 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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