Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
G. K. CHESTERTONAmerica is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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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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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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The past is not what it was.
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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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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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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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