It is always the secure who are humble.
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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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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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 things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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