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

G. K. Chesterton

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition

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