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Thanks are the highest form of thought.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
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
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
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
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
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
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
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
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 main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
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
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed

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