All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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