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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

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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
[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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
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
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking 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
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
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
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
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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