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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.

G. K. Chesterton

These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
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
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
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
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 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
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence

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