Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
G. K. CHESTERTONDemocracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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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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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The past is not what it was.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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