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The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
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Children Dragon Existence Fairy Tale Fantasy Inspirational Kill
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
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
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
A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
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Death Flow Live Stream Water
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
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
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story

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