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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G. K. Chesterton

The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol

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