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The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

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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
There’s a lot of difference between listening and hearing.
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Difference Hear Listening
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
O God of earth and altar, Bow down and hear our cry, Our earthly rulers falter, Our people drift and die; The walls of gold entomb us, The swords of scorn divide, Take not thy thunder from us, But take away our pride.
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Division Earth Ourselves People Pride
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
Impartiality is a pompous name for indifference, which is an elegant name for ignorance.
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Difference Disguise Ignorance Name Partial
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
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
When we were children we were grateful to those who filled our stockings at Christmas time. Why are we not grateful to God for filling our stockings with legs?
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Children Gratitude Ourselves Time
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
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
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Difficult Failure Religious Try
Faith means believing the unbelievable.
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Believe Faith Impossible Inspirational
The most incredible thing about miracles is that they happen.
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Hope Inspirational Magic Miracle
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
The past is not what it was.
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One Liner Past
The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children.
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Children Extraordinary Family Magic Ordinary Woman
One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Greatness Oneself See Sight Small View
When it comes to life the critical thing is whether you take things for granted or take them with gratitude.
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Choice Gratitude Life Yourself
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Deep Mistake Truth Understand
God is not a symbol of goodness; goodness is a symbol of God.
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Deep God Goodness Religious Symbol
It [feminism] is mixed up with a muddled idea that women are free when they serve their employers but slaves when they help their husbands.
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Employment Feminism Freedom Husband Ideas Woman
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
Stick to the man who looks out of the window and tries to understand the world. Keep clear of the man who looks in at the window and tries to understand you.
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Man Understand Window World Yourself
It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.
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Complain Evolution Pretend Thinking Weird
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
If there were no God, there would be no atheists.
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Atheist Deep God Perspective
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

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