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Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

G. K. Chesterton

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
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
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time

Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.

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