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It was common to say that many a man was a Great Might Have Been. To me it is a more solid and startling fact that any man in the street is a Great Might Not Have Been.
— G. K. Chesteron, Orthodoxy, 1909, 114, quoted in Stanley L. Jaki, Chesterton: A Seer of Science, 2001 (1986), 107–108.

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About all of us a decision has been made in heaven. It falls upon us poor earthlings to let God's will in heaven be also done on earth in our particular case. By comparison all other issues are irrelevant.

— Stanley L. Jaki, Ours a Dearest Father: Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer

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You . . . think yourself a great man because you live in a little world, and that a bad one. The Odyssey, Book XVIII

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The purpose of the Our Father is not self improvement.

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The concept of rights, so fruitful for America in its first two centuries, will be its undoing in this century.