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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.

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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
It is always the secure who are humble.
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Humble One Liner Security
We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.
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Enemy Friendship God Ourselves
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold.
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Age Forget Gold Man
You cannot love a thing without wanting to fight for it.
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Fight Love Yourself
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
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
All men are ordinary men; the extraordinary men are those who know it.
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Inspirational Man Ordinary Value Worth
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
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
We should always endeavor to wonder at the permanent thing, not at the mere exception. We should be startled by the sun, and not by the eclipse. We should wonder less at the earthquake, and wonder more at the earth.
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Earth Exception Nature Wonder
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 way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Lost Love Realization
The greatest political storm flutters only a fringe of humanity. But an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children literally alter the destiny of nations.
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Destiny Greatness Humanity Nation Ordinary Story
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
A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.
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Feeling Greatness Oneself Person

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