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How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win.

G. K. Chesterton

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
I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
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Believe Cleaning Perspective Water
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
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
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities – and found no statues of Committees.
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Committee Myself Search See
At the back of our brains is a blaze of astonishment at our own existence. The object of the artistic and spiritual life is to dig for this sunrise of wonder.
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Astonishment Brain Life Rise Spiritual Sun
Whenever you remove any fence, always pause long enough to ask why it was put there in the first place.
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Enough Place Removal Yourself
Idolatry is when you worship what you should use, and use what you should worship.
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God Religion Stupidity Worship
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
America is the only country ever founded on a creed.
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Build Country Foundation Religion
I don’t need a church to tell me I’m wrong where I already know I’m wrong; I need a Church to tell me I’m wrong where I think I’m right.
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Myself Religion Right Thinking Wrong
I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else.
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Absence Aware Mindset Presence
The whole secret of mysticism is this: that man can understand everything by the help of something he cannot understand.
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Man Philosophy Secret Understand
If men will not be governed by the Ten Commandments, they shall be governed by the ten thousand commandments
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Command Government Man Rule
CIVILISATION is not to be judged by the rapidity of communication, but by the value of what is communicated.
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Civilization Communication Judgement Speed

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