Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTONA madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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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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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All government is an ugly necessity.
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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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A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.
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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 Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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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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Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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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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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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