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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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