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#1

“If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.”
― Voltaire

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#2

“Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: faith

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#3

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#4

“The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: love-loss

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#5

“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
― Voltaire

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#6

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”
― Voltaire

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#7

“Being a writer is 1% inspiration, 50% perspiration and 49% explaining you're not a millionaire like J.K.Rowling.”
― Gabrielle Tozer

tags: humor, motivational-quotes, real-life, writing

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#8

“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”
― Edward De Bono, I Am Right You Are Wrong

tags: real-life

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#9

“Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
― Erick S. Gray

tags: real-life

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#10

“You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: explanations, inexplicable, odd, real-life, reality

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#11

“A man with outward courage dares to die; a man with inner courage dares to live.”
― Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

tags: courage, death, inspirational, life, moral-courage, real-life

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#12

“Beliefs are the eyelids of the mind.”
― David Zindell, The Broken God

tags: real-life, reminding

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#13

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#14

“Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, literature, on-fiction

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#15

“I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: attention, books, humor, mind, wit

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#16

“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance

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#17

“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: education, ignorance, indoctrination

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#18

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#19

“There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: happiness, satisfaction, serenity

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#20

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics

tags: authors, books, writing

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#21

“Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: gullibility

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#22

“To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: free-speech

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#23

“Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: art, morality

750 likes

#24

“Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#25

“It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#26

“Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Heretics: The Annotated

tags: alcohol, drinking, happy

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#27

“I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#28

“It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#29

“Angels can fly because they can take themselves lightly.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: inspirational-humor

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#30

“Love is not blind; that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind.”
― G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy

tags: love

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