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I agree with the realistic Irishman who said he preferred to prophesy after the event.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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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Entirely Men School Stake
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Modern Silence Tyranny
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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Atheism Fear People
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
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Eye Spring Story Sunset
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
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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Believe Country Government People
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Common Faith Inspiration Sense
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
I never could see anything wrong in sensationalism; and I am sure our society is suffering more from secrecy than from flamboyant revelations.
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Bath Believe Practice
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Grateful Gratitude Life Live
All science, even the divine science, is a sublime detective story. Only it is not set to detect why a man is dead; but the darker secret of why he is alive.
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Men Secret Sublime
Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.
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Believe Fear Running
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate.
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Book Hero Read
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men