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Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.

G. K. Chesterton

[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
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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
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
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
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
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice

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