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Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.

G. K. Chesterton

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
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
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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
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
[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
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
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
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man

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