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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
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
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong

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