When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
G. K. CHESTERTONHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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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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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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