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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

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.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
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

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