Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONOriginal sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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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 test of happiness is gratitude.
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Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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