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Art is born when the temporary touches the eternal.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Laughter has something in it common with the ancient words of faith and inspiration; it unfreezes pride and unwinds secrecy; it makes people forget themselves in the presence of something greater than themselves.
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Ancient Pride Unfreese
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
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
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
Dear Sir: Regarding your article ‘What’s Wrong with the World?’ I am. Yours truly.
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Cleanliness Essential Next
The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century.
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Country People Regard Riddle
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
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
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.
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Country Earth Rich Scum
Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to die.
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Courage Day Strong Veteran
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
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