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

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
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
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 object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
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
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
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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject

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