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A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

G. K. Chesterton

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
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 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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue

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