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A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

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To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
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God Life Man Sunset Touch Woman Work
Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.
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Duty High Man Responsibility Time
The problem of disbelieving in God is not that a man ends up believing nothing. Alas, it is much worse. He ends up believing anything.
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Believe End Himself Man Problem Worst
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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 golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
Agnostic is the Greek word, for the Latin word, for ignorant.
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Ignorance Language Meaning Reference Word
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
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed
When belief in God becomes difficult, the tendency is to turn away from Him; but in heaven’s name to what?
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Belief Difficult God Heaven Himself
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection

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