And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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 thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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