I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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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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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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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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