You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONIdolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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