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.
G. K. CHESTERTONJesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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.
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