The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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”.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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