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Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

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But since he stood for England And knew what England means, Unless you give him bacon You must not give him beans.

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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

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Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.

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There is no great harm in the theorist who makes up a new theory to fit a new event. But the theorist who starts with a false theory and then sees everything as making it come true is the most dangerous enemy of human reason.

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A naked moon stood in a naked sky.

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Making the landlord and the tenant the same person has certain advantages, as that the tenant pays no rent, while the landlord does a little work.

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We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

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The Catholic Church is the only thing that saves man from the degrading slavery of being a child of his age.

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Instead of the machine being a giant to which the man is the pygmy, we must at last reverse the proportions until man is a giant to whom the machine is the toy.

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Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.

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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.

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People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

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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 most important fact about the subject of education is that there is no such thing. Education is not a subject and it does not deal in subjects. It is instead the transfer of a way of life.

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Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

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Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

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