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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution

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