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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

G. K. Chesterton

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
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
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
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
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
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

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