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

G. K. Chesterton

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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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
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
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
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
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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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