Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
G. K. CHESTERTONWe’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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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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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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 there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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