I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe 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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Passion makes every detail important.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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