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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

G. K. Chesterton

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
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
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science

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