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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.

G. K. Chesterton

At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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
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
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 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
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
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 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
The whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect.
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Eyes Heart Intellectual Road
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
The Darwinian movement has made no difference to mankind, except that, instead of talking unphilosophically about philosophy, they now talk unscientifically about science.
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Difference Exception Movement Philosophy Science
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
Being a success at work is not worth it if it means being a failure at home.
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Failure Home Success Work Worth
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
Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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Dangerous Death Education Horrible People Serious
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
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Enough Experience Lying Perfection
You’ll never find the solution if you don’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution Yourself

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