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The past is not what it was.

G. K. Chesterton

The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
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
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand

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