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

G. K. Chesterton

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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
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 State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
[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
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
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past

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

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