We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONFairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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