Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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