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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

G. K. Chesterton

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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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