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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.

G. K. Chesterton

You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.
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Handle Serious Under
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
Moral issues are always terribly complex for someone without principles.
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Complex Issues Moral Principle Terrible
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
[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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.
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Fiction Journalism Life Oneself World
Jesus promised his disciples three things—that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.
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Discipline Fear Happiness Promise Trouble Weird
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past

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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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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