I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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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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Passion makes every detail important.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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