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Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.

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
Comradeship is quite a different thing from friendship. . .
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Food Important Science
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
The Church is a house with a hundred gates: and no two men enter at exactly the same angle
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Apology Men Sorry
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
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
Against a dark sky, all flowers look like fireworks.
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Atheism Heaven Nihilism
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Catholic doctrine and discipline may be walls; but they are the walls of a playground.
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Animal Sacrifice Worship
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Mean Things Unbelievable
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
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
Paradox – Truth standing on her head to get attention.
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Art Ass Bad Sunset
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

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