One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONWhen it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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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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People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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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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A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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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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There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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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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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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