The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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The test of happiness is gratitude.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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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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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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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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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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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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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