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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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