I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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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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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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