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Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

G. K. Chesterton

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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
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
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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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
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
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
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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 golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man

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