A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
G. K. CHESTERTONWhen men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Passion makes every detail important.
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When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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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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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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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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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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