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Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Life Men Principles
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Minded Open
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
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Christianity Morality Religion
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
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Goes Intelligent Trying
The historic glory of America lies in the fact that it is the one nation that was founded like a church. That is, it was founded on a faith that was not merely summed up after it had exited, but was defined before it existed.
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Error Final Human
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
A madman is not someone who has lost his reason but someone who has lost everything but his reason
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Children Justice Love
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Modern man is staggering and losing his balance because he is being pelted with little pieces of alleged fact which are native to the newspapers; and, if they turn out not to be facts, that is still more native to newspapers.
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Half Literature Mean
It is generally the man who is not ready to argue, who is ready to sneer.
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Apologetic Arguing Men
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
One elephant having a trunk was odd; but all elephants having trunks looked like a plot.
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Doubtful Men Pilot
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Dipsomaniac and the abstainer are not only both mistaken, but they both make the same mistake. They both regard wine as a drug and not as a drink.
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Artist Wisdom Wise
The present condition of fame is merely fashion.
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Fashion Health Men View
There are some desires that are not desirable.
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Morality People Scandal
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable