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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

G. K. Chesterton

Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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

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