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It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

G. K. Chesterton

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
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
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild

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