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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

It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
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
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 true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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 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
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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
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

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