America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
G. K. CHESTERTONThere 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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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