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The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.

G. K. Chesterton

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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Deep Desire Enough Philosophy
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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Hard Time Perspective Rain Yourself
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
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Ourselves Philosophy Phone Science Talk
The things we see every day are the things we never see at all.
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Day Deep Eyes See
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
Nothing taken for granted; everything received with gratitude; everything passed on with grace.
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Grace Grant Gratitude
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
The evolutionists seem to know everything about the missing link except the fact that it is missing.
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Exception Fact Knowledge Missing
When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.
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Atheist Believe Choice God Man Mindset
Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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Hope Seem
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
The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.
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Heart Mindset Object Open
Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly. Never forget that the devil fell by force of gravity. He who has the faith has the fun.
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Angel Devil Faith Force Forget Fun Gravity Himself Light
It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.
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Hang Politics Terrible

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