CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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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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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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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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The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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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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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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