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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance
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 are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right
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Church Need Thinking
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.
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Dog Funny Spiritual
Daybreak is a never-ending glory; getting out of bed is a never ending nuisance.
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Dark Flower Sky
A great man is not a man so strong that he feels less than other men; he is a man so strong that he feels more.
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Darkness Fact Simple
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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

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