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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.

G. K. Chesterton

The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
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
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
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
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See

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