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

G. K. Chesterton

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
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
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
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
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
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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