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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.

G. K. Chesterton

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
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
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
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird

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