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Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.

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
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
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.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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

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