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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

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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
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
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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government

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