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Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.

G. K. Chesterton

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
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
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
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
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
The main point of Christianity was this: that Nature is not our mother: Nature is our sister.
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Mom Nature Ourselves Relationship Religion Sister
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality

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