When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
G. K. CHESTERTONTolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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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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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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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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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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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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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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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