Today, ten quotes from G K Chesterton, who was born on this date in 1874.
- Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
- Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
- Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
- Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
- An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
- The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
- There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
- How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
- Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all.
- Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented.
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The six richest people in Britain decide to hold a contest to settle the question of which of them is most successful. It will be a gladiator style contest with each entrant fielding a team of ten super-powered combatants. Entrepreneur Llew Powell sets out to put together his team, which includes his former lover, an employee of his company with a fascinating hobby, two refugees from another dimension (a lonely giant and a drunken sailor), two sisters bound together by a promise, a diminutive doctor, a former Tibetan monk initiate and two androids with a history. As the team train together, alliances form, friendships and more develop, while others find the past is not easy to leave behind.
Meanwhile, a ruthless race of aliens has its eyes on the Earth. Already abducting and enslaving humans, they work towards the final invasion which would destroy life on Earth as we know it. Powell’s group, Combat Team Alpha, stumble upon one of the wormholes the aliens use to travel to Earth and witness for themselves the horrors in store if the aliens aren’t stopped. Barely escaping with their lives, they realise there are more important things to worry about than a fighting competition.
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