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

G. K. Chesterton

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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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
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

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