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God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.

G. K. Chesterton

We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you are sure to have a spiritual harem”.
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Avoid Goodness Requirement Virtue Wife Woman Yourself
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
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
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
[No society can survive the socialist] fallacy that there is an absolutely unlimited number of inspired officials and an absolutely unlimited amount of money to pay them.
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Inspirational Limitation Money Pay Society
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
When a woman puts up her fists to a man she is putting herself in the only posture in which he is not afraid of her.
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Afraid Himself Man Woman
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.
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Day Expectation Praise Way
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science

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