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A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.

G. K. Chesterton

But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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
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
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
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
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time

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