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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

G. K. Chesterton

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence

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