There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
G. K. CHESTERTONVariability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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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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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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Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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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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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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