I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
G. K. CHESTERTONI may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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The past is not what it was.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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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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Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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