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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

G. K. Chesterton

A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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 real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
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
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself

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