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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.

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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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

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