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It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
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
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See

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