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We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.

G. K. Chesterton

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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.
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Fight Hate Himself Love Soldier True
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
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Art Draw Moral Sketch
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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
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
How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.
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Determination Lose Mindset Success Thinking Yourself
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
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
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
Tolerance is a virtue of people who don’t believe in anything anymore.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
Passion makes every detail important.
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Detail Important Passion
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.
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Champion Enemy Evil Man

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