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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.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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One of the chief uses of religion is that it makes us remember our coming from darkness, the simple fact that we are created.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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From the standpoint of any sane person, the present problem of capitalist concentration is not only a question of law, but of criminal law, not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians did and just as the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Islam was something like a Christian heresy. The early heresies had been full of mad reversals and evasions of the Incarnation, rescuing their Jesus from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than in offering to fight one's grandmother. The really…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from life. Our objection to scepticism…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I look around the world and see so many wonderful things that I love and enjoy and benefit from, whether it's art or music or…
— Daniel Dennett
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One of the things that distinguishes man from the other animals is that he wants to know things, wants to find out what reality is…
— C.S. Lewis
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You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work,…
— C.S. Lewis
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For every difficulty that supposedly stops a person from succeeding there are thousands who have had it a lot worse and have succeeded anyway. So…
— Brian Tracy
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A verse from the Veda says, 'What you see, you become.' In other words, just the experience of perceiving the world makes you what you…
— Deepak Chopra
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The personal power that comes from principle-centered living is the power of a self-aware, knowledgeable, proactive individual, unrestricted by the attitudes, behaviors, and actions of…
— Stephen Covey
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If you love your work, you'll be out there every day trying to do it the best you possibly can, and pretty soon everybody around…
— Sam Walton
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This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated…
— Albert Einstein
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You've got to sing like you don't need the money. You've got to love like you'll never get hurt. You've got to dance like there's…
— Susanna Clarke
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Spare yourselves from the indulgence of self-pity. It is always self-defeating. Subdue the negative and emphasize the positive.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Most of us at the Reserve Bank come from a background in economics and hence have a predisposition in favour of free markets and a…
— Ian Macfarlane
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