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The past is not what it was.

G. K. Chesterton

Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
[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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
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
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water

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