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There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.

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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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Boat Each Other Loyalty Terrible
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
A Catholic is a person who has plucked up courage to face the incredible and inconceivable idea that something else may be wiser than he is.
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Courage Face Himself Ideas Person Wisdom
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
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Bad Democracy Education Government
Right is Right even if nobody does it. Wrong is wrong even if everybody is wrong about it.
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Audience People Right Wrong
We need to be reminded more than we need to be instructed.
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Instruction Need Reminder
Do not be so open-minded that your brains fall out.
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Brain Fall Open Minded Stupidity Yourself
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
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Argument Judgement Mad Man Worst Yourself
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
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible
The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
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Choice Darkness Issues Light Side
Exactly at the instant when hope ceases to be reasonable it begins to be useful.
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Beginning Hope Reason
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
God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Deep God Religious Sun 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
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
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
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Interest Mindset People
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
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 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
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
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 whole pleasure of marriage is that it is a perpetual crisis.
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Happiness Marriage Struggle
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence

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