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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K. Chesterton

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love

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