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”.
G. K. CHESTERTONUnless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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