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The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.

G. K. Chesterton

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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Afraid Himself Man Woman
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
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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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
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 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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
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
We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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

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