Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONIf men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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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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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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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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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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?
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The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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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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