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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.

G. K. Chesterton

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
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
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
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
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
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society

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