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

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
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
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
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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