When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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