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I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.

G. K. Chesterton

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
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
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason

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