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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
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Birthday Book Writing
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
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Appearance Dog Gone
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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