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Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

G. K. Chesterton

A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
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
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
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
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.

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