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Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism against the extravagant, excessive, and occasionally drunken idealism of men
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Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good men can only hate sin and bad men virtue
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When people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything
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When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it
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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around
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There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read
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There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions
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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him
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The only right way of telling a story is to begin at the beginning--at the beginning of the world. Therefore all books have to be begun in the wrong way for the sake of brevity
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The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautiful and then that it is dangerous
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The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried
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The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people
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It has been often said, very truly, that religion is the thing that makes the ordinary man feel extraordinary; it is an equally important truth that religion is the thing that makes the extraordinary man feel ordinary
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Is one religion as good as another? Is one horse in the Derby as good as another? by
By GK Chesterton