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Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.

G. K. Chesterton

Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
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
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
[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

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