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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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
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 greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational

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