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    Neil Gaiman
    “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
    tags: books, dragons, fairy-tales, inspirational, paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton
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    Billy Sunday
    “Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any more than going to a garage makes you an automobile.”
    ― Billy Sunday, "Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ
    tags: automobile, car, funny, humor, religious
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “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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    G.K. Chesterton
    “There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: boredom, human-nature, ignorance
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “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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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, What's Wrong with the World
    tags: christian-behavior, christianity, pacifism, religion
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “If there were no God, there would be no atheists.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: travel
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Religious liberty might be supposed to mean that everybody is free to discuss religion. In practice it means that hardly anybody is allowed to mention it.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: freedom-of-religion, religion
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “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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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly,”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “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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    G.K. Chesterton
    “How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton, A Miscellany of Men
    tags: generosity, greed, wealth
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    Thucydides
    “Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.”
    ― Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
    tags: equality, power, rights
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    Thucydides
    “When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.”
    ― Thucydides
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    Dorothy Parker
    “If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: god, humor, money
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I hate writing, I love having written.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: writing, writing-process
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I like to have a martini,
    Two at the very most.
    After three I'm under the table,
    after four I'm under my host.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Collected Dorothy Parker
    tags: drinking, drunken-behaviour, humor
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    Dorothy Parker
    “What fresh hell is this?”
    ― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker
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    If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor
    “If you have any young friends who aspire to become writers, the second greatest favor you can do them is to present them with copies of The Elements of Style. The first greatest, of course, is to shoot them now, while they’re happy.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: achievement, authors, elements-of-style, favors, grammar, happiness, writing, writing-process
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    Dorothy Parker
    “The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: empty-nest, humor, motherhood, parenthood, parenting
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    Dorothy Parker
    “A hangover is the wrath of grapes.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humour
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it's so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.”
    ― Dorothy Parker, Collected Stories
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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    Dorothy Parker
    “I'd like to have money. And I'd like to be a good writer. These two can come together, and I hope they will, but if that's too adorable, I'd rather have money.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
    tags: humor-writing-money
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    Dorothy Parker
    “Woman wants monogamy;
    Man delights in novelty.
    Love is woman's moon and sun;
    Man has other forms of fun.
    Woman lives but in her lord;
    Count to ten, and man is bored.
    With this the gist and sum of it,
    What earthly good can come of it?”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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  • #30
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.”
    ― Dorothy Parker
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