A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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