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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Life Men Principles
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
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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Men Running Thinking