All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTONRight is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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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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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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