We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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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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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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