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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

G. K. Chesterton

One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
[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 more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
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
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
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
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
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

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