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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

G. K. Chesterton

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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 essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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
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
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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

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