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Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

G. K. Chesterton

How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Adventure Right Wrong
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
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 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
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
Marriage halves our griefs, doubles our joys, and quadruples our expenses.
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Double Grief Happiness Joy Marriage Ourselves

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