Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
G. K. CHESTERTONExactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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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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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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