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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

G. K. Chesterton

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
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
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
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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
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
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
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
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

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