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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.

G. K. Chesterton

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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 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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
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

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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