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When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.

G. K. Chesterton

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
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
[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 poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
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
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
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness

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