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I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.

G. K. Chesterton

Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
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
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
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
[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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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

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