When giving treats to friends or children, give them what they like, emphatically not what is good for them.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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