How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere 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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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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