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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.

G. K. Chesterton

You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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
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
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

Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
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.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Man Understand Window World Yourself
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Art Draw Moral Sketch

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