The past is not what it was.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is always the secure who are humble.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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