Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
G. K. CHESTERTONHow you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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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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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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