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When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.

G. K. Chesterton

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
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
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
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship

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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