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Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
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
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
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

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