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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

G. K. Chesterton

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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
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
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
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
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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