You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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The past is not what it was.
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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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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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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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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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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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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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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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