The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONIt is always the secure who are humble.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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