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

G. K. Chesterton

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
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
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
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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman

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