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

G. K. Chesterton

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
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 past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past

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