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The test of happiness is gratitude.

G. K. Chesterton

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
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
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
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 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
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
[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
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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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