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We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.

G. K. Chesterton

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
For when we cease to worship God, we do not worship nothing, we worship anything.
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Existence God Refuse Worship
Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.
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Affair Love Religion Theory
A society is in decay, final or transitional, when common sense really becomes uncommon.
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Destruction Society Transition
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
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
The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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Mystery Poet Silence Subject
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
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
It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It is that they can’t see the problem.
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Problem See Solution
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
A thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
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Construction Creation Existence Love
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Gratitude Happiness Test
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Cosmos Ego Stardom Understand
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Gratitude Thankful Thinking
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

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