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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

G. K. Chesterton

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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