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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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 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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
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
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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

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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