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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

G. K. Chesterton

Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science

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