How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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 past is not what it was.
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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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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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