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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

G. K. Chesterton

You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
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
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

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