I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTONI have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The past is not what it was.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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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 evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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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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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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