The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. CHESTERTONI am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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