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We are all ordinary people. And it's the extraordinary people Who know it.
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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There are two kinds of paradoxes. They are not so much the good and the bad, nor even the true and the false. Rather they are the fruitful and the barren the paradoxes which produce life and the paradoxes that merely announce death. Nearly all modern paradoxes merely announce death.
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Christendom has had a series of revolutions and in each one of them Christianity has died. Christianity has died many times and risen again for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.
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Classic literature is still something that hangs in the air like a song.
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Think of all those ages through which men have had the courage to die, and then remember that we have actually fallen to talking about having the courage to live.
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Women prefer to talk in twos, while men prefer to talk in threes.
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We are passing into a social phase in which unless a heroic effort is made for human dignity and freedom, gold will be the sole method of government and therefore the sole standard of manners.
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If you convey to a woman that something ought to be done, there is always a dreadful danger that she will suddenly do it.
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[A pacifist is] the last and least excusable on the list of the enemies of society.
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None of the modern machines, none of the modern paraphernalia. . . have any power except over the people who choose to use them.
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Students of popular science... are always insisting that Christianity and Buddhism are very much alike, especially Buddhism. This is generally believed, and I believed it myself until I read a book giving the reasons for it.
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I believe your own accent is inimitable, though I shall practice it in my bath.
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It is true that I am of an older fashion much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.
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The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.
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A fad or heresy is the exaltation of something which even if true, is secondary or temporary in its nature against those things which are essential and eternal, those things which always prove themselves true in the long run. In short, it is the setting up of the mood against the mind.
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The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense.
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