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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. "

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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" Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair. "

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" Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions. "

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" A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything. "

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" Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head. "

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