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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.

G. K. Chesterton

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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

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