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Orthodoxy

by G.K. Chesterton

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Epee 2.5: The New Paradigm Revised and Augmented

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“To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

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“Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance

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“Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“Always do what you are afraid to do.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“We learn from history that we do not learn from history.”
― Georg Hegel

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