The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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