Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONEducation 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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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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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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One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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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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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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Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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