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.
G. K. CHESTERTONAngels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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