If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
G. K. CHESTERTONIt isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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