The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
G. K. CHESTERTONThe Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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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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No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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