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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

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
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself

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