The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONFor when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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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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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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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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