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Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.

G. K. Chesterton

Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister

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