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The past is not what it was.

G. K. Chesterton

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
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
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
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
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science

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