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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

G. K. Chesterton

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder

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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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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