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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

G. K. Chesterton

When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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 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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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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