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You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.

G. K. Chesterton

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
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person
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
Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.
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Faith Reality Reason Relationship Thinking
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
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
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
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution

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