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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

G. K. Chesterton

We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Sick Togetherness
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
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
I have known many happy marriages, but never a compatible one. The whole aim of marriage is to fight through and survive the instant when incompatibility becomes unquestionable. For a man and a woman, as such, are incompatible.
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Compatible Fight Happiness Man Marriage Survival Woman
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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Choice Deep Difficult Reality Right
Modern intelligence won’t accept anything on authority. But it will accept anything without authority.
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Acceptance Agreement Authority Funny Intelligence
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 thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
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Argument Hate Interrupt Myself Session
The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.
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Discover Essence Mom Nature Ourselves Religion
Tolerance is the virtue of people who do not believe in anything.
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Believe People Tolerance Virtue
The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Man Reality
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
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Double Gratitude Happiness Wonder
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
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
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

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