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.
G. K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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The 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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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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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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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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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