The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTON[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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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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The past is not what it was.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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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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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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