There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONThere 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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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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