The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
G. K. CHESTERTONBut the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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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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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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