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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.

G. K. Chesterton

The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
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
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
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
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible

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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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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