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The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.

G. K. Chesterton

The 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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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
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
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
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
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions.
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Call Hate Love Religion Secularism
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
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
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
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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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
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.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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

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