CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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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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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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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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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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