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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

The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Day Deep Eyes See
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
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
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
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
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
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
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security

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