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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

The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity

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