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Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.

G. K. Chesterton

Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride

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