The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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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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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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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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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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