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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

The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
[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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
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 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
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
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 thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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

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