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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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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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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
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
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
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
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol

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