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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.

G. K. Chesterton

Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
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

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