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Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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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
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.
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God Man Riddle Satisfaction Solution
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
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
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Around Death Democracy Tradition Vote Walk
The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
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
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
We do not need a censorship of the press. We have a censorship by the press… It is not we who silence the press. It is the press who silences us.
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Deep Media Silence Validation
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
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
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
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
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Education Man School Time
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

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