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Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

G. K. Chesterton

I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
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
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
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
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
[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 riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution

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