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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time

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