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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.

G. K. Chesterton

There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
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
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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
[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
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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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
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
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition

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