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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.

G. K. Chesterton

Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
[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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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 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
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
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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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution

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