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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.

G. K. Chesterton

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The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
[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
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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Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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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
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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A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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