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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

Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
[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
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See

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