Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
G. K. CHESTERTONOne sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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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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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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