How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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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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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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The past is not what it was.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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