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Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

G. K. Chesterton

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
[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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization

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