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One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.

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We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man’s terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.
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Fear God Man Scare Thinking
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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
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
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Faith Forgiveness Hope Love Sorry
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
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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 Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
Hell is God’s great compliment to the reality of human freedom and the dignity of human choice.
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Chance Compliment God Hell Human

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