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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way

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