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The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition

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