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America is the only country ever founded on a creed.

G. K. Chesterton

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
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun Yourself
But the truth is that it is only by believing in God that we can ever criticise the Government. Once abolish the God, and the Government becomes the God.
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Abolishment Believe Criticism God Government Truth
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
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
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
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water

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