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These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.

G. K. Chesterton

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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

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