There are some desires that are not desirable.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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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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Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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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.
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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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