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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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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 things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
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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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk

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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