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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.

G. K. Chesterton

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective

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