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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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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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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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