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Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

G. K. Chesterton

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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
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
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
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
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
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves
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

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