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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.

G. K. Chesterton

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
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 believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
[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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try

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