Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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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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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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