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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

It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
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
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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
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

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