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

G. K. Chesterton

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
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 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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
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
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
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See

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