There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONCIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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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.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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