It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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