Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDo not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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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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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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