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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

G. K. Chesterton

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
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 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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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

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