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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

G. K. Chesterton

There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
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 whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
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
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
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
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

It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.

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