Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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