When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
G. K. CHESTERTONAnd when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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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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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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