God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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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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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The 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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