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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.

G. K. Chesterton

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
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
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle

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