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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
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
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
[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
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World

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