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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

G. K. Chesterton

God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
There is less difference than many suppose between the ideal Socialist system, in which the big businesses are run by the State, and the present Capitalist system, in which the State is run by the big businesses.
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Business Difference Ideal State System
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
[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
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
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
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
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening

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