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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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Clever Men Stupid
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Courage Day Strong Veteran
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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Art Beautiful Beauty
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
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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Church Need Thinking
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Dark Flower Sky
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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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Darkness Fact Simple
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Half Literature Mean
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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Error Final Human
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men

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