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The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.

G. K. Chesterton

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
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
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
G. K. CHESTERTON

Construction Creation Existence Love

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