Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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