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Humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle.

G. K. Chesterton

We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
I may not practice what I preach but God forbid I should preach what I practice
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Action God Knowledge Myself Practice
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
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
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
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
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
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
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
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
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves

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