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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
[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 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
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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World 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
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself

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