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A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
Age: 62 †
Born: 1874
Born: May 29
Died: 1936
Died: June 14
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the object of a new year is not that we should have a new year, but rather that we should have a new soul.
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I will not call it my philosophy for I did not make it. God and humanity made it and it made me.
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When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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There is nothing harder to learn than painting and nothing which most people take less trouble about learning. An art school is a place where about three people work with feverish energy and everybody else idles to a degree that I should have conceived unattainable by human nature.
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You have not wasted your time you have helped to save the world. We are not buffoons, but very desperate men at war with a vast conspiracy.
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The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun it is imagination.
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Paradox - Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles.
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Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.
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Grey is a colour that always seems on the eve of changing to some other colour.
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The prophet and the quack are alike admired for a generation, and admired for the wrong reasons.
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
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In the glad old days, before the rise of modern morbidities...it used to be thought a disadvantage to be misunderstood.
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We have had no good comic operas of late, because the real world has been more comic than any possible opera.
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