There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G. K. CHESTERTONA Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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