Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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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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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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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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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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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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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