The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONI’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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