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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

G. K. Chesterton

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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
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
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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