Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is always the secure who are humble.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The past is not what it was.
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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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