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If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

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People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
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Attraction Belief People
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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Inspirational Letter Writing
Man’s sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.
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Greatness Men Strange
Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
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Greatness Myself Power Yourself
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
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Heart Inspirational Life Love Reason
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don’t speak well of yourself.
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Humble Humility People Praise Thinking
There is enough light for those who only desire to see, and enough obscurity for those who have a contrary disposition.
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Desire Enough Light See
Man’s greatness lies in his power of thought.
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Greatness Lying Man Power
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
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Act Life Men Possible Spiritual Thinking
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
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Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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Greatness Misery Ourselves
We never love a person, but only qualities.
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Deep Love Person Quality
Mutual cheating is the foundation of society.
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Cheat Foundation
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
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Men Seek Truth Value
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
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Establishment Love Spiritual Time Truth
All the trouble in the world is due to the fact that man cannot sit still in a room.
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Men Trouble World
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
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Believe Gift Myself
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.
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God Heart Spiritual
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
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Live Man Reason Suffering
It’s not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It’s those who write the songs.
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Law Song Worth Writing
Imagination decides everything.
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Imagination Inspirational One Liner
Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.
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Lying Men Thinking
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
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Alone Feeling Let Go Reason
All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
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Inspirational Man Misery Peace
All the maxims have been written. It only remains to put them into practice.
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Practice Writing
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in others.
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Discover Intelligence Men Reality
Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Extraordinary Greatness Ordinary Wisdom

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

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