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Faith means believing the unbelievable.

G. K. Chesterton

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
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 [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
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
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person

Faith means believing the unbelievable.

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