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Unless a man becomes the enemy of an evil, he will not even become its slave but rather its champion.

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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting up false devils; by making men afraid of war or alcohol, or economic law, when they should be afraid of spiritual corruption and cowardice.
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Afraid Corruption Coward Devil Fake God Spiritual Stupidity
Those who leave the tradition of truth do not escape into something which we call Freedom. They only escape into something else, which we call Fashion.
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Call Escape Fashion Leaving Tradition
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
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
When people begin to ignore human dignity, it will not be long before they begin to ignore human rights.
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Beginning Dignity Human Ignorance People
The one perfectly divine thing, the one glimpse of God’s paradise given on earth, is to fight a losing battle – and not lose it.
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Battle Divine Fight God Lose Oneself Perfection
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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
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
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening

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