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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.

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Modern toleration is really a tyranny. It is a tyranny because it is a silence.
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Destruction Silence Tolerance
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
No man can break any of the Ten Commandments. He can only break himself against them.
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Break Command Himself Man Religious
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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
The word ‘good’ has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
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Goodness Man Meaning Necessary Time Word
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
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
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective

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