When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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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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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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