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.
G. K. CHESTERTONO God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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