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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

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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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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
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
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
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Establishment Myself Religion Rule Wild
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 way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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