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Where does a wise man kick a pebble? On the beach. Where does a wise man hide a leaf? In the forest.

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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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The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated from each other and are wandering alone. Thus some scientists care for truth; and their truth is pitiless. Thus some humanitarians only care for pity; and their pity (I am sorry to say) is often untruthful.

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Employers will give time to eat, time to sleep; they are in terror of a time to think.

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[Paradox is] truth standing on its head to gain attention.

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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.

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If the apple hit Newton’s nose, Newton’s nose hit the apple.

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By experts in poverty I do not mean sociologists, but poor men.

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The classes that wash most are those that work least.

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A great curse has fallen upon modern life with the discovery of the vastness of the word Education.

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I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward.

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I still think sincere pessimism the unpardonable sin.

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The worst moment for an atheist is when he feels a profound sense of gratitude and has no one to thank.

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With all that we hear of American hustle and hurry, it is rather strange that Americans seem to like to linger on longer words.

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Modern broad-mindedness benefits the rich; and benefits nobody else.

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I still believe in liberalism today as much as I ever did, but, oh, there was a happy time when I believed in liberals.

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I would rather a boy learnt in the roughest school the courage to hit a politician, or gained in the hardest school the learning to refute him - rather than that he should gain in the most enlightened school the cunning to copy him.

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can appeal to something more holy than the gods of the city.

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