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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.

G. K. Chesterton

When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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
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
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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