Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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 fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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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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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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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 past is not what it was.
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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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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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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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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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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For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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It is always the secure who are humble.
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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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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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Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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