Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONDipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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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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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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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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A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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There are some desires that are not desirable.
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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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