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.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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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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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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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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