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I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.

G. K. Chesterton

You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
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

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