The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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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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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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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.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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